netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: phy: add Maxlinear GPY115/21x/24x driver

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Date:   Fri, 4 Jun 2021 12:39:21 +0000
From:   Liang Xu <lxu@...linear.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
CC:     "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "hkallweit1@...il.com" <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "kuba@...nel.org" <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "vee.khee.wong@...ux.intel.com" <vee.khee.wong@...ux.intel.com>,
        Hauke Mehrtens <hmehrtens@...linear.com>,
        Thomas Mohren <tmohren@...linear.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: phy: add Maxlinear GPY115/21x/24x driver

On 4/6/2021 8:09 pm, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> This email was sent from outside of MaxLinear.
>
>
>> In one of our product (in developing), the NIC driver can decide to
>> switch to 2nd firmware.
> There are currently no systems like this in Linux. So this is going to
> need new support. Ideally, we don't want the MAC involved in this
> switch, because then you need to teach every MAC driver in linux about
> how your PHY is special.
>
> I would say, for the moment, forget about this setup. When you submit
> support for it, we can look at the bigger picture, and see how best to
> support it.
>
> So please put the firmware version print in the driver probe
> function. That should work for the devices the driver currently
> supports.
>
>            Andrew
>
OK