[PATCH v2 2/6] net: phy: broadcom: Add BCM54810 PHY entry
From: andrew@lunn.ch (Andrew Lunn)
Date: 2016-11-01 16:26:56
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From: andrew@lunn.ch (Andrew Lunn)
Date: 2016-11-01 16:26:56
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+ if (of_property_read_bool(np, "brcm,enet-phy-lane-swap")) { + /* Lane Swap - Undocumented register...magic! */ + ret = bcm_phy_write_exp(phydev, MII_BCM54XX_EXP_SEL_ER + 0x9, + 0x11B); + if (ret < 0) + return ret; + } +I wounder if this property could be made generic? What exactly are you swapping? Rx and Tx lanes? Maybe we should add it to phy.txt?Are you envisioning adding a DT check (similar to the of_property_read_bool above, only with a more generic string) in phy_device_create(), which will then set a PHY device flag? This flag would then be checked for in the PHY driver and the appropriate action taken (in this case the bcm_phy_write_exp above).
I would keep the parsing of the property in the driver. But if we think other PHYs could also support this feature, it would be good to avoid having "brcm,enet-phy-lane-swap", "marvell,enet-phy-lane-swap", "davicom,enet-phy-lane-swap", etc. It would be better to have one well defined property documented in phy.txt which any PHY is free to implement. Andrew