From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] net/dt: Add support for overriding phy configuration from device tree
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
        Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
        "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
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Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:47:03 +0000
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 12:39:41 -0800, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-01-17 Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>:
> > Some hardware may be broken in interesting and board-specific ways, such
> > that various bits of functionality don't work. This patch provides a
> > mechanism for overriding mii registers during init based on the contents of
> > the device tree data, allowing board-specific fixups without having to
> > pollute generic code.
> 
> It would be good to explain exactly how your hardware is broken
> exactly. I really do not think that such a fine-grained setting where
> you could disable, e.g: 100BaseT_Full, but allow 100BaseT_Half to
> remain usable makes that much sense. In general, Gigabit might be
> badly broken, but 100 and 10Mbits/sec should work fine. How about the
> MASTER-SLAVE bit, is overriding it really required?
> 
> Is not a PHY fixup registered for a specific OUI the solution you are
> looking for? I am also concerned that this creates PHY troubleshooting
> issues much harder to debug than before as we may have no idea about
> how much information has been put in Device Tree to override that.
> 
> Finally, how about making this more general just like the BCM87xx PHY
> driver, which is supplied value/reg pairs directly? There are 16
> common MII registers, and 16 others for vendor specific registers,
> this is just covering for about 2% of the possible changes.

I would be fine with that too.

g.
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