linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 02/13] phy: add the mvebu cp110 comphy driver

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Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:58:05 +0200
From:   Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...e-electrons.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...e-electrons.com>,
        davem@...emloft.net, kishon@...com, jason@...edaemon.net,
        sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com,
        gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com,
        thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com, nadavh@...vell.com,
        linux@...linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mw@...ihalf.com, stefanc@...vell.com,
        miquel.raynal@...e-electrons.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 02/13] phy: add the mvebu cp110 comphy driver

Hi Andrew,

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 03:45:04PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > +	for_each_available_child_of_node(pdev->dev.of_node, child) {
> > +		struct mvebu_comphy_lane *lane;
> > +		struct phy *phy;
> > +		int ret;
> > +		u32 val;
> > +
> > +		ret = of_property_read_u32(child, "reg", &val);
> > +		if (ret < 0) {
> > +			dev_err(&pdev->dev, "missing 'reg' property (%d)\n",
> > +				ret);
> > +			continue;
> > +		}
> 
> I'm just wondering why we need this. We know how many lanes there are
> from the table. So just create a generic PHY for each lane?

At first I did this statically. I moved to this solution because:
1. It represents the h/w correctly (there are 6 lanes duplicated here).
2. It eases the dt representation, we would have something like:
   <&cpm_comphy 0 1>; otherwise.
3. If the number of lanes changes in future revisions it'll be quite
   easy to handle.

Thanks!
Antoine

-- 
Antoine Ténart, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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