netdev - RE: [PATCH v4 2/5] net: macb: add support for sgmii MAC-PHY interface

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Date:   Mon, 24 Jun 2019 10:32:36 +0000
From:   Parshuram Raju Thombare <pthombar@...ence.com>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
CC:     "andrew@...n.ch" <andrew@...n.ch>,
        "nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com" <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "f.fainelli@...il.com" <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "hkallweit1@...il.com" <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Rafal Ciepiela <rafalc@...ence.com>,
        Anil Joy Varughese <aniljoy@...ence.com>,
        Piotr Sroka <piotrs@...ence.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v4 2/5] net: macb: add support for sgmii MAC-PHY interface

>> >Sorry, this reply doesn't answer my question.  I'm not asking about
>> >bp->speed and bp->duplex.  I'm asking:
>> >1) why you are initialising bp->phy_interface here
>> >2) you to consider the impact that has on the mac_config() implementation
>> >  you are proposing
>> > because I think it's buggy.
>> bp->phy_interface is to store phy mode value from device tree. This is used
>later
>> to know what phy interface user has selected for PHY-MAC. Same is used
>> to configure MAC correctly and based on your suggestion code is
>> added to handle PHY dynamically changing phy interface, in which
>> case bp->phy_interface is also updated. Though it may not be what user
>> want,
>> if phy interface is totally decided by PHY and is anyway going to be different
>> from what user has selected in DT, initializing it here doesn't make sense.
>> But in case of PHY not changing phy_interface dynamically bp-
>>phy_interface need to be initialized with value from DT.
>When phylink_start() is called, you will receive a mac_config() call to
>configure the MAC for the initial operating settings, which will include
>the current PHY interface mode.  This will initially be whatever
>interface mode was passed in to phylink_create().
Yes, and same bp->phy_interface is passed to phylink_create().
We need this to know what phy interface is selected by user.

Regards,
Parshuram Thombare