netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Armada 38x comphy driver to support 2.5Gbps networking

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Date:   Wed, 14 Nov 2018 13:39:29 +0530
From:   Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
        Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Armada 38x comphy driver to support 2.5Gbps
 networking

Hi,

On 12/11/18 5:59 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This series adds support for dynamically switching between 1Gbps
> and 2.5Gbps networking for the Marvell Armada 38x SoCs, tested on
> Armada 388 on the Clearfog platform.
> 
> This is necessary to be able to connect (eg) a Clearfog platform
> with a Macchiatobin platform via the SFP sockets, as Clearfog
> currently only supports 1Gbps networking via the SFP socket and
> Macchiatobin defaults to 2.5Gbps when using Fiberchannel SFPs.
> 
> In order to allow dynamic switching, we need to implement a common
> phy driver to switch the ethernet serdes lane speed - 2.5Gbps is
> just 1Gbps up-clocked by 2.5x.  We implement a simple comphy
> driver to achieve this, which only supports networking.
> 
> With this, we are able to support both Fiberchannel SFPs operating
> at 2.5Gbps or 1Gbps, and 1G ethernet SFPs plugged into the Clearfog
> platform, dynamically selecting according to the SFPs abilities.
> 
> I'm aware of the proposed changes to the PHY layer, changing
> phy_set_mode() to take the ethernet phy interface type, hence why
> this is RFC - there's also the question about how this will be
> merged.  This series is currently based on 4.20-rc1, but will
> likely need to be rebased when the PHY layer changes hit.

For this case, I'd prefer the phy_set_mode series and the phy and net changes
here (after rebasing) go via linux-phy tree.

Thanks
Kishon