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Message-ID: <YKBepW5Hu3FEG/JJ@lunn.ch>
Date:   Sun, 16 May 2021 01:52:05 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@...il.com>
Cc:     Jonathan McDowell <noodles@...th.li>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v4 01/28] net: mdio: ipq8064: clean
 whitespaces in define

> > They're on 2 separate sets of GPIOs if that makes a difference - switch0
> > is in gpio0/1 and switch1 is on gpio10/11. Is the internal MDIO logic
> > shared between these? Also even if that's the case it seems odd that
> > enabling the MDIO for just switch0 doesn't work?
> > 
> 
> The dedicated internal mdio on ipq8064 is unique and present on the
> gmac0 address so yes it's shared between them. And this seems to be the
> problem... As you notice the fact that different gpio are used for the
> different switch fix the problem. So think that to use the dedicated
> mdio bus with both switch we need to introduce some type of
> syncronization or something like that.

Please could you describe the hardware in a bit more details. Or point
me at a datasheet. It sounds like you have an MDIO mux? Linux has this
concept, so you might need to implement a mux driver.

	 Andrew