netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 00/20] net-next: stmmac: add dwmac-sun8i ethernet driver

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Date:   Mon, 1 May 2017 18:10:30 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>
Cc:     Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        alexandre.torgue@...com, devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/20] net-next: stmmac: add dwmac-sun8i ethernet
 driver

> > > > Does the internal PHY have a phy driver? It seems like
> > > > tx-delay-ps/rx-delay-ps are properties of this internal PHY, and so
> > > > should be in the phy driver, if it has one.
> > > 
> > > Nope. These affect the delay lines for the external PHY interface.
> 
> I will add some sentences in the documentation to be more clear about that.

Thanks

> 
> > 
> > Oh, yes. I understood the patch wrong.
> > 
> > None of the patches actually use these properties. Are they actually
> > needed? We should avoid adding vendor specific properties, if they are
> > not used.
> > 
> 
> The board that use it is the BananaPi M3, but the SoC A83T still lack clocks support.
> So theses properties is already used out of tree, and will be used in tree soon.

Fair enough.

Thanks
	Andrew