Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/5] net: stmmac: introduce pcs_init/pcs_exit stmmac operations

[Romain Gantois]

Hi Serge,

On Tue, 16 Apr 2024, Serge Semin wrote:

> I am currently working on my Memory-mapped DW XPCS patchset cooking:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231205103559.9605-1-fancer.lancer@xxxxxxxxx/
> The changes in this series seems to intersect to what is/will be
> introduced in my patchset. In particular as before I am going to
> use the "pcs-handle" property for getting the XPCS node. If so what
> about collecting PCS-related things in a single place. Like this:
> 
> int stmmac_xpcs_setup(struct net_device *ndev)
> {
> 	...
> 
> 	if (priv->plat->pcs_init) {
> 		return priv->plat->pcs_init(priv); /* Romain' part */
>	} else if (fwnode_property_present(priv->plat->port_node, "pcs-handle")) {
> 		/* My DW XPCS part */
> 	} else if (priv->plat->mdio_bus_data && priv->plat->mdio_bus_data->has_xpcs) {
> 		/* Currently implemented procedure */
> 	}
> 
> 	...
> }

That seems like a good idea to me, although those setup functions would have to 
be renamed to stmmac_pcs_setup/exit.

Thanks,

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