Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:42:00 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To:     "Frank.Sae" <Frank.Sae@motor-comm.com>
Cc:     Peter Geis <pgwipeout@gmail.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
        Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
        yanhong.wang@starfivetech.com, xiaogang.fan@motor-comm.com,
        fei.zhang@motor-comm.com, hua.sun@motor-comm.com,
        netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/5] dt-bindings: net: Add Motorcomm yt8xxx
 ethernet phy
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> >> +properties:
> >> +  rx-internal-delay-ps:
> >> +    description: |
> >> +      RGMII RX Clock Delay used only when PHY operates in RGMII mode with
> >> +      internal delay (phy-mode is 'rgmii-id' or 'rgmii-rxid') in pico-seconds.
> >> +    enum: [ 0, 150, 300, 450, 600, 750, 900, 1050, 1200, 1350, 1500, 1650,
> >> +            1800, 1900, 1950, 2050, 2100, 2200, 2250, 2350, 2500, 2650, 2800,
> >> +            2950, 3100, 3250, 3400, 3550, 3700, 3850, 4000, 4150 ]
> >> +    default: 1950
> > 
> > Ah! There has been a misunderstand. Yes, this changes does make sense, but > 
> >> +
> >> +  tx-internal-delay-ps:
> >> +    description: |
> >> +      RGMII TX Clock Delay used only when PHY operates in RGMII mode with
> >> +      internal delay (phy-mode is 'rgmii-id' or 'rgmii-txid') in pico-seconds.
> >> +    enum: [ 0, 150, 300, 450, 600, 750, 900, 1050, 1200, 1350, 1500, 1650, 1800,
> >> +            1950, 2100, 2250 ]
> >> +    default: 150
> > 
> > ... i was actually trying to say this 150 is odd. Why is this not
> > 1950?
> 
>  Tx-delay is usually adjusted by the mac (~ 2ns).
>  So here is only fine-turn for the tx-delay.

In general, in Linux, this is not true. The PHY inserts both
delays. Yes, you can have the MAC insert the delay, but it then means
the MAC needs to modify phy-mode to indicate it has inserted the
delay, changing rgmii-id to rmgmii-rxid when it calls
phy_connect_*(). And few MAC drivers get this correct. So i would
avoid this. Default to 1950. And if there is a device which needs a
fine tune, it can use 2100, or 2250 in its DTS file.

     Andrew