Re: [PATCH v2] net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: add check for in-band mode setting with RGMII PHY interface

[Florian Fainelli]

On 03/15/2018 11:18 AM, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
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> On 03/15/2018 12:39 PM, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
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>> On 03/15/2018 11:56 AM, SZ Lin (æäæ) wrote:
>>> According to AM335x TRM[1] 14.3.6.2, AM437x TRM[2] 15.3.6.2 and
>>> DRA7 TRM[3] 24.11.4.8.7.3.3, in-band mode in EXT_EN(bit18) register
>>> is only
>>> available when PHY is configured in RGMII mode with 10Mbps speed. It
>>> will
>>> cause some networking issues without RGMII mode, such as carrier sense
>>> errors and low throughput. TI also mentioned this issue in their
>>> forum[4].
>>>
>>> This patch adds the check mechanism for PHY interface with RGMII
>>> interface
>>> type, the in-band mode can only be set in RGMII mode with 10Mbps speed.
>>>
>>> References:
>>> [1]: https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spruh73p/spruh73p.pdf
>>> [2]: http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spruhl7h/spruhl7h.pdf
>>> [3]: http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spruic2b/spruic2b.pdf
>>> [4]: https://e2e.ti.com/support/arm/sitara_arm/f/791/p/640765/2392155
>>>
>>> Suggested-by: Holsety Chen (éæè) <Holsety.Chen@xxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: SZ Lin (æäæ) <sz.lin@xxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Schuyler Patton <spatton@xxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> Changes from v1:
>>> - Use phy_interface_is_rgmii helper function
>>> - Remove blank line
>>>
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>> Reviewed-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx>
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> 
> Also could this be marked as stable material 4.9+?

This is not how it works for networking changes, just make sure you
provide a "Fixes:" tag, and David would usually take care of queueing
the change to -stable accordingly:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt#n148
-- 
Florian