Re: [PATCH v2 05/11] net: stmmac: dwmac-rk: Add internal phy support

[Chen-Yu Tsai]

Hi David, Florian, Andrew

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On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 2:56 PM, David.Wu <david.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi Florian,
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> å 2017/7/28 0:54, Florian Fainelli åé:
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>> - if you need knowledge about this PHY connection type prior to binding
>> the PHY device and its driver (that is, before of_phy_connect()) we
>> could add a boolean property e.g: "phy-is-internal" that allows us to
>> know that, or we can have a new phy-mode value, e.g: "internal-rmii"
>> which describes that, either way would probably be fine, but the former
>> scales better
>>
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> Using "phy-is-internal" is very helpful, but it is easy to confuse with
> the real internal PHY, may we use the other words like phy is inlined.

If "internal" is confusing, would "phy-is-integrated" in the MAC node work?

Either way we would like to have a definitive solution to this. Our
dwmac-sun8i driver is already in v4.13-rc1, with a somewhat flaky
method of knowing whether the internal PHY is used (phy-mode = "mii").

We really want a fix for this release, otherwise we would be force
to revert either the internal PHY part or the whole driver.

ChenYu

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>> Then again, using phy-mode = "internal" even though this is Reduced MII
>> is not big of a deal IMHO as long as there is no loss of information and
>> that internal de-facto means internal reduced MII for instance.
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