Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 3 authors, 2016-11-01

Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] net: phy: broadcom: Add BCM54810 PHY entry

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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
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