netdev - RE: net: micrel: confusion about phyids used in driver

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Date:   Tue, 2 Jul 2019 20:55:07 +0000
From:   <Yuiko.Oshino@...rochip.com>
To:     <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
CC:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <andrew@...n.ch>, <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        <kernel@...gutronix.de>, <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        <Ravi.Hegde@...rochip.com>, <Tristram.Ha@...rochip.com>
Subject: RE: net: micrel: confusion about phyids used in driver



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 4:32 PM
>To: Yuiko Oshino - C18177 <Yuiko.Oshino@...rochip.com>
>Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org; Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>; Florian Fainelli
><f.fainelli@...il.com>; kernel@...gutronix.de; Heiner Kallweit
><hkallweit1@...il.com>
>Subject: Re: net: micrel: confusion about phyids used in driver
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>Hello Yuiko Oshino,
>
>On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 09:22:43AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>> On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 11:07:45PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> > On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 10:55:29PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>> > > On 09.05.2019 22:29, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>> > > > I have a board here that has a KSZ8051MLL (datasheet:
>> > > > http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/ksz8051mll.pdf,
>phyid:
>> > > > 0x0022155x) assembled. The actual phyid is 0x00221556.
>> > >
>> > > I think the datasheets are the source of the confusion. If the
>> > > datasheets for different chips list 0x0022155x as PHYID each, and
>> > > authors of support for additional chips don't check the existing
>> > > code, then happens what happened.
>> > >
>> > > However it's not a rare exception and not Microchip-specific that
>> > > sometimes vendors use the same PHYID for different chips.
>>
>> From the vendor's POV it is even sensible to reuse the phy IDs iff the
>> chips are "compatible".
>>
>> Assuming that the last nibble of the phy ID actually helps to
>> distinguish the different (not completely) compatible chips, we need
>> some more detailed information than available in the data sheets I have.
>> There is one person in the recipents of this mail with an
>> @microchip.com address (hint, hint!).
>
>can you give some input here or forward to a person who can?
>
>Best regards
>Uwe
>
>--
>Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
>Industrial Linux Solutions                 | http://www.pengutronix.de/  |


Hello Uwe,

I forward this to the team.

Best regards,
Yuiko