netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 01/10] net: phy: add "internal" PHY mode

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Date:	Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:41:15 -0800
From:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 01/10] net: phy: add "internal" PHY mode

2014-02-13 12:34 GMT-08:00 David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:
> From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 21:29:46 -0800
>
>> On some systems, the PHY can be internal, in the same package as the
>> Ethernet MAC, and still be responding to a specific address on the MDIO
>> bus, in that case, the Ethernet MAC might need to know about it to
>> properly configure a port multiplexer to switch to an internal or
>> external PHY. Add a new PHY interface mode for this and update the
>> Device Tree of_get_phy_mode() function to look for it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
>> ---
>> Changes since v1:
>> - rebased against lastest net-next master branch
>
> This is over-engineering.
>
> The only thing that even uses this value is phy_is_internal(), and
> the only user of phy_is_internal() is the generic PHY layer ethtool
> operation for get-settings.
>
> The PHY layer already has a place to indicate whether a PHY is
> internal or not, overriding that using the PHY mode is trouble
> waiting to happen.
>
> Please, just provide some way to propagate this device tree property
> into phy->is_internal.

I just realized that I am able to drop this change completely since I
add a PHY driver for the Ethernet MAC which already flags particular
devices of interest as internal PHYs. This change originally came up
as I needed to know that before probing for the PHY, which can be
resolved by doing some re-ordering.

Thanks for the feedback.
-- 
Florian
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