netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: phy: vitesse: Add support for VSC73xx

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Message-ID: <87156f76-449c-1ec3-e7fa-776c2fddc992@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 14 Jun 2018 09:29:32 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>,
        Woojung Huh <Woojung.Huh@...rochip.com>,
        Microchip Linux Driver Support <UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, openwrt-devel@...ts.openwrt.org,
        LEDE Development List <lede-dev@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Gabor Juhos <juhosg@...nwrt.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: phy: vitesse: Add support for VSC73xx



On 06/14/2018 05:35 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> The VSC7385, VSC7388, VSC7395 and VSC7398 are integrated
> switch/router chips for 5+1 or 8-port switches/routers. When
> managed directly by Linux using DSA we need to do a special
> set-up "dance" on the PHY. Unfortunately these sequences
> switches the PHY to undocumented pages named 2a30 and 52b6
> and does undocumented things. It is described by these opaque
> sequences also in the reference manual. This is a best
> effort to integrate it anyways.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Probably as good as it can get given the information you have access to.
Maybe the guys at Mircochip could help, adding them.

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

Just one nit below:

> ---
>  drivers/net/phy/vitesse.c | 162 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 162 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/vitesse.c b/drivers/net/phy/vitesse.c
> index d9dd8fbfffc7..526c71ae7d96 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/vitesse.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/vitesse.c
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
>  #include <linux/module.h>
>  #include <linux/mii.h>
>  #include <linux/ethtool.h>
> +#include <linux/delay.h>

Is that needed?
-- 
Florian