netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: phy: bcm7xxx: request and manage GPHY clock

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Date:   Mon, 7 Sep 2020 09:37:23 +0200
From:   Marco Felsch <m.felsch@...gutronix.de>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch, adam.rudzinski@....net.pl,
        hkallweit1@...il.com, richard.leitner@...data.com,
        zhengdejin5@...il.com, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...gutronix.de, kuba@...nel.org, robh+dt@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: phy: bcm7xxx: request and manage GPHY
 clock

On 20-09-04 08:38, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/3/2020 11:18 PM, Marco Felsch wrote:
> > On 20-09-02 21:39, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > > The internal Gigabit PHY on Broadcom STB chips has a digital clock which
> > > drives its MDIO interface among other things, the driver now requests
> > > and manage that clock during .probe() and .remove() accordingly.
> > 
> > Hi Florian,
> > 
> > Seems like you added the same support here like I did for the smsc
> > driver. So should I go with my proposed patch which can be adapted later
> > after you guys figured out who to enable the required resources?
> 
> That seems fine to me, on your platform there appears to be an assumption
> that we will be able to probe the SMSC PHY because everything we need is
> already enabled, right? If so, this patch series does not change that state.

Unfortunately yes.. The imx-fec driver enables all DT-specified clock
and then the mdio-bus probe is initiated. The good point is that my
patchset do not require a clock-id so the generic way can replace my
work later.

Regards,
  Marco