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Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 0/4] Adding the Sparx5 Serdes driver
From:   Steen Hegelund <steen.hegelund@microchip.com>
To:     Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
CC:     Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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Date:   Tue, 16 Mar 2021 09:05:35 +0100
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Hi Vinod,

On Tue, 2021-03-16 at 10:23 +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
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> Hello Steen,
> 
> On 15-03-21, 16:04, Steen Hegelund wrote:
> > Hi Kishon, Vinod, Andrew, Jacub, and David,
> > 
> > I just wanted to know if you think that the Generic PHY subsystem might
> > not be the right place for this Ethernet SerDes PHY driver after all.
> > 
> > Originally I chose this subsystem for historic reasons: The
> > Microchip/Microsemi Ocelot SerDes driver was added here when it was
> > upstreamed.
> > On the other hand the Ocelot Serdes can do both PCIe and Ethernet, so
> > it might fit the signature of a generic PHY better.
> > 
> > At the moment the acceptance of the Sparx5 Serdes driver is blocking us
> > from adding the Sparx5 SwitchDev driver (to net), so it is really
> > important for us to resolve which subsystem the Serdes driver belongs
> > to.
> > 
> > I am very much looking forward to your response.
> 
> Generic PHY IMO is the right place for this series, I shall review it
> shortly and do the needful. I have asked Kishon to check the new phy API
> and ack it...
> 
> Thanks
> --
> ~Vinod

Thank you very much for the confirmation.

BR
Steen