netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/2] net: phy: Add MAC-IF driver for Microsemi PHYs.

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Date:   Fri, 9 Sep 2016 14:03:46 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Raju Lakkaraju <Raju.Lakkaraju@...rosemi.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        Allan.Nielsen@...rosemi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/2] net: phy: Add MAC-IF driver for
 Microsemi PHYs.

On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 11:23:52AM +0530, Raju Lakkaraju wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Thank you for review the code and valuable comments.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 03:27:27PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > EXTERNAL EMAIL
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 02:47:22PM +0530, Raju Lakkaraju wrote:
> > > From: Raju Lakkaraju <Raju.Lakkaraju@...rosemi.com>
> > >
> > > Used Device Tree to configure the MAC Interface as per review comments and
> > > re-sending code for review
> > 
> > I don't see anything about device tree in this patch...
> > 
> Ethernet driver (in my BBB environment, TI cpsw driver) read the device tree 
> phy interface parameter and update in phydev structure.
> 
> In device tree the following code holds the phy interface configuration.
> &cpsw_emac0 {
>         phy_id = <&davinci_mdio>, <0>;
>         phy-mode = "rgmii";
> };

O.K, that is one place it can come from. But it is not the only,
e.g. platform data or ACPI. A better comment might be:

Configure the MAC/PHY interface as indicated in phydev->interface,
eg. GMII, RMII, RGMII.

    Andrew