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Date:   Mon, 12 Apr 2021 18:52:01 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To:     "Radu Nicolae Pirea (NXP OSS)" <radu-nicolae.pirea@oss.nxp.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] phy: nxp-c45: add driver for tja1103
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On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 05:49:04PM +0300, Radu Nicolae Pirea (NXP OSS) wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-04-12 at 16:23 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > It is purely a C45 device.
> > 
> > > Even if the PHY will be based on the same IP or not, if it is a C45
> > > PHY, it will be supported by this driver. We are not talking about
> > > 2 or
> > > 3 PHYs. This driver will support all future C45 PHYs. That's why we
> > > named it "NXP C45".
> > 
> > So if in future you produce C45 multi-gige PHYs, which have nothing
> > in
> > common with the T1 automative PHY, it will still be in this driver?
> Yes. C45 is robust and, if the PHY interface is standard, you can
> support Base-T, Base-T1, and so on in the same register interface.

So what you are say is, you don't care if the IP is completely
different, it all goes in one driver. So lets put this driver into
nxp-tja11xx.c. And then we avoid all the naming issues.

     Andrew