Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: net: Add TI DP83640

[Maxime Chevallier]

> 
> I've missed that thread initially. I guess that if Fiber is to be used,
> this would be done through sfp, then we have all the regular interfaces
> to configure the phy_interface_mode, in that case that would be
> 100BaseX.
> 
> So, a sane behaviour could simply be to configure the PHY in copper
> mode by default, without relying on any DT property ? If anyone wants to
> use fiber mode, then they would have to implement the
> sfp_upstreamp_ops, which would take care of reconfiguring the MDI
> interface of the PHY in the correct mode.

I missed the fact that this isn't a new driver... So this would indeed
break existing setups who would have fiber-mode strapped-in but don't
use SFP for some reason :(

Maxime

> Maxime
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