netdev - Re: stmmac: GMAC_RGSMIIIS reports bogus values

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Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:46:32 +0100
From:   Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@...com>
To:     Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@...opsys.com>
CC:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: stmmac: GMAC_RGSMIIIS reports bogus values

Hello Alexey

On 1/31/2017 2:24 PM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> Hi Giuseppe,
>
> On Tue, 2017-01-31 at 10:55 +0100, Giuseppe CAVALLARO wrote:
>> On 1/27/2017 11:23 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
>>>
>>> That's why my initial proposal was to ignore whatever we read from this register
>>> if we have MDIO bus instantiated already.
>>
>> sorry for my late reply, I agree with this approach, according to the
>> HW and platform configuration the driver has to understand and then
>> work to use either SMA or PCS module.
>
> I already submitted another solution which IMHO is much cleaner and appropriate,
> see David has it already in master tree here:
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=0a764db103376cf69d04449b10688f3516cc0b88
>

it's ok, thx for that

Peppe

> -Alexey
>