Re: [PATCH net-next v4 00/11] mscc: ocelot: add support for SerDes muxing configuration

[David Miller]

From: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu,  4 Oct 2018 14:21:57 +0200

> The Ocelot switch has currently an hardcoded SerDes muxing that suits only
> a particular use case. Any other board setup will fail to work.
> 
> To prepare for upcoming boards' support that do not have the same muxing,
> create a PHY driver that will handle all possible cases.
> 
> A SerDes can work in SGMII, QSGMII or PCIe and is also muxed to use a
> given port depending on the selected mode or board design.
> 
> The SerDes configuration is in the middle of an address space (HSIO) that
> is used to configure some parts in the MAC controller driver, that is why
> we need to use a syscon so that we can write to the same address space from
> different drivers safely using regmap.
> 
> This breaks backward compatibility but it's fine because there's only one
> board at the moment that is using what's modified in this patch series.
> This will break git bisect.
> 
> Even though this patch series is about SerDes __muxing__ configuration, the
> DT node is named serdes for the simple reason that I couldn't find any
> mention to SerDes anywhere else from the address space handled by this
> driver.

Series applied to net-next, thanks.