Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 3 authors, 2021-06-14

Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] phy: core: Reword the comment specifying the units of max_link_rate to be Mbps

From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <hidden>
Date: 2021-06-11 13:02:25
Also in: linux-devicetree, linux-phy, lkml

Hi,

On 11/06/21 6:12 pm, Aswath Govindraju wrote:
Hi Vinod,

On 31/05/21 2:04 pm, Aswath Govindraju wrote:
quoted
Hi Vinod,

On 31/05/21 12:48 pm, Vinod Koul wrote:
quoted
On 10-05-21, 10:40, Aswath Govindraju wrote:
quoted
In some subsystems (eg. CAN, SPI), the max link rate supported can be less
than 1 Mbps and if the unit for max_link_rate is Mbps then it can't be
used. Therefore, leave the decision of units to be used, to the producer
and consumer.

Signed-off-by: Aswath Govindraju <redacted>
Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
---
 include/linux/phy/phy.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/phy/phy.h b/include/linux/phy/phy.h
index 0ed434d02196..f3286f4cd306 100644
--- a/include/linux/phy/phy.h
+++ b/include/linux/phy/phy.h
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ struct phy_ops {
 /**
  * struct phy_attrs - represents phy attributes
  * @bus_width: Data path width implemented by PHY
- * @max_link_rate: Maximum link rate supported by PHY (in Mbps)
+ * @max_link_rate: Maximum link rate supported by PHY (units to be decided by producer and consumer)
So there are a few users of max_link_rate. It would be better that we
document all previous users of max_link_rate that unit is in Mbps and
then modify it here
I was able to see that the max_link_rate attribute was used at,

drivers/phy/cadence/phy-cadence-torrent.c:2514:
gphy->attrs.max_link_rate = cdns_phy->max_bit_rate;

and in the bindings there is indication that the units to be used is Mbps.

Can you please point me if there is any other place that I might have
missed to look at or that might need documentation update?
The only user seems to be Torrent and max_bit_rate is documented well in
Torrent.

Acked-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <redacted>

Thanks
Kishon
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