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Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 18:41:35 +0100
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2, net-next, 2/2] net: stmmac: PCI driver for BCM8958X
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On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 10:38:46AM -0700, Jitendra Vegiraju wrote:
> Thanks for reviewing the patch.
> On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 12:34 PM Russell King (Oracle)
> <linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> > As pointed out in the other sub-thread, you don't need this. If you need
> > a fixed-link and you don't have a firmware description of it, you can
> > provide a swnode based description through plat->port_node that will be
> > passed to phylink. Through that, you can tell phylink to create a
> > fixed link.
> >
> Thank you for the pointers or software node support.
> Since the driver is initially targetted for X86/_64, we were not sure
> how to deal with lack of OF support.
> We will try out the software node facility.

You may wish to have a look at drivers/net/ethernet/wangxun/ which
also creates software nodes for phylink.

Thanks.

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