netdev - Re: [PATCH net 3/3] net: dsa: rtl8365mb: set RGMII RX delay in steps of 0.3 ns

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Message-Id: <8F46AA41-9B98-4EFA-AB2E-03990632D75C@arinc9.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 Nov 2021 15:57:23 +0300
From:   Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>
To:     Alvin Šipraga <alvin@...s.dk>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
        Alvin Šipraga <ALSI@...g-olufsen.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 3/3] net: dsa: rtl8365mb: set RGMII RX delay in steps of 0.3 ns

> On 26 Nov 2021, at 15:50, Alvin Šipraga <alvin@...s.dk> wrote:
> 
> From: Alvin Šipraga <alsi@...g-olufsen.dk>
> 
> A contact at Realtek has clarified what exactly the units of RGMII RX
> delay are. The answer is that the unit of RX delay is "about 0.3 ns".
> Take this into account when parsing rx-internal-delay-ps by
> approximating the closest step value. Delays of more than 2.1 ns are
> rejected.
> 
> This obviously contradicts the previous assumption in the driver that a
> step value of 4 was "about 2 ns", but Realtek also points out that it is
> easy to find more than one RX delay step value which makes RGMII work.
> 
> Fixes: 4af2950c50c8 ("net: dsa: realtek-smi: add rtl8365mb subdriver for RTL8365MB-VC")
> Cc: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alvin Šipraga <alsi@...g-olufsen.dk>

Acked-by: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>