netdev - Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 2/9] dt-bindings: net: add backplane dt bindings

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Date:   Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:35:07 +0000
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Florinel Iordache <florinel.iordache@....com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
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        Leo Li <leoyang.li@....com>,
        "Madalin Bucur (OSS)" <madalin.bucur@....nxp.com>,
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Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 2/9] dt-bindings: net: add backplane
 dt bindings

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 04:44:48PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > What worries me is the situation which I've been working on, where
> > we want access to the PCS PHYs, and we can't have the PCS PHYs
> > represented as a phylib PHY because we may have a copper PHY behind
> > the PCS PHY, and we want to be talking to the copper PHY in the
> > first instance (the PCS PHY effectivel ybecomes a slave to the
> > copper PHY.)
> 
> I guess we need to clarify what KR actually means. If we have a
> backplane with a MAC on each end, i think modelling it as a PHY could
> work.
> 
> If however, we have a MAC connected to a backplane, and on the end of
> the backplane is a traditional PHY, or an SFP cage, we have problems.
> As your point out, we cannot have two PHYs in a chain for one MAC.
> 
> But i agree with Russell. We need a general solution of how we deal
> with PCSs.

What really worries me is that we may be driving the same hardware
with two different approaches/drivers for two different applications
which isn't going to work out very well in the long run.

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