linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/9] net: macsec: initial support for hardware offloading

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Message-ID: <20190809114050.GA5285@kwain>
Date:   Fri, 9 Aug 2019 13:40:50 +0200
From:   Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>
To:     "Allan W. Nielsen" <allan.nielsen@...rochip.com>
Cc:     Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        sd@...asysnail.net, andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        hkallweit1@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com,
        alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com, camelia.groza@....com,
        Simon.Edelhaus@...antia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/9] net: macsec: initial support for
 hardware offloading

Hi Allan,

On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 01:23:47PM +0200, Allan W. Nielsen wrote:
> 
> I have done a first read through of your patch and it looks good to me.
> 
> The only thing which confused me is all the references to Ocelot.
> 
> As far as I can see, this is a driver for the vsc8584 PHY in the Viper family.
> The Ocelot confusion is properly because you are developing it on an Ocelot
> board. But this is actually a modded board, the official PCB 120 and PCB123 has
> a different pin compatible PHY without MACsec.
> 
> FYI: In the Viper family we have VSC8575, VSC8582, VSC8584, VSC8562 and VSC8564.
> 
> VSC8575, does not have MACsec, but all other does, and they are binary
> compatible (it is the same die instantiated 2 or 4 times, with or without
> MACsec/SyncE).
> 
> I beleive it is only the commit comments which needs to be addressed.

That's right, I mixed up Ocelot and the actual PHY names. I'll look for
Ocelot references in the patches and I'll fix it in v3.

Thanks for spotting this,
Antoine

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Antoine Ténart, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com