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Date:   Fri, 1 Apr 2022 15:43:25 +0100
From:   "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc:     Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@microchip.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 0/3] net: phy: micrel: Remove latencies support
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On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 02:57:46PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 01:05:19PM +0200, Horatiu Vultur wrote:
> > Remove the latencies support both from the PHY driver and from the DT.
> > The IP already has some default latencies values which can be used to get
> > decent results. It has the following values(defined in ns):
> > rx-1000mbit: 429
> > tx-1000mbit: 201
> > rx-100mbit:  2346
> > tx-100mbit:  705
> 
> So one alternative option here is that ptp4l looks at
> 
> /sys/class/net/<ifname>/phydev/phy_id

That doesn't work for Clause 45 PHYs, only Clause 22 PHYs. If we want
userspace to know which PHY it is, we need a proper interface that
exports all the 31 Clause 45 IDs (each mmd's registers 2/3) as well, as
well as the Clause 45 package ID (registers 14/15).

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