netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] platform data controls for mdio-gpio

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Message-ID: <20181206195414.GN18674@lunn.ch>
Date:   Thu, 6 Dec 2018 20:54:14 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] platform data controls for mdio-gpio

On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 09:22:27AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On 12/6/18 5:58 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Soon to be mainlined is an x86 platform with a Marvell switch, and a
> > bit-banging MDIO bus. In order to make this work, the phy_mask of the
> > MDIO bus needs to be set to prevent scanning for PHYs, and the
> > phy_ignore_ta_mask needs to be set because the switch has broken
> > turnaround.
> 
> This looks good, I would just make one/two changes which is to match the
> internal phy_mask and phy_ignore_ta_mask types from the struct mii_bus
> and use u32 instead of int.

Yes, that makes sense.

v2 to follow.

     Andrew