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Message-ID: <ea447e7c-8e80-07cd-25c0-3fc2a651eb48@ti.com>
Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2023 11:56:18 +0530
From:   Md Danish Anwar <a0501179@...com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
CC:     Roger Quadros <rogerq@...nel.org>,
        MD Danish Anwar <danishanwar@...com>,
        "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>, Suman Anna <s-anna@...com>,
        YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re:
 [PATCH v4 2/2] net: ti: icssg-prueth: Add ICSSG ethernet driver



On 09/02/23 19:24, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> Sure, I'll do that. In the list of all phy modes described in [1], I can only
>> see phy-mode "rgmii-txid", for which we can return -EINVAL. Is there any other
>> phy-mode that requires enabling/disabling TX internal delays? Please let me
>> know if any other phy-mode also needs this. I will add check for that as well.
> 
> There are 4 phy-modes for RGMII.
> 
> rgmii, rgmii-id, rmgii-rxid, rgmii-txid.
> 
> rgmii-id, rgmii-txid both require TX delays. If you do that in the MAC
> you then need to pass rgmii-rxid and rgmii to the PHY respectively.
> 
> rmii and rgmii-rxid requires no TX delays, which your SoC cannot do,
> so you need to return -EINVAl,
> 
> The interpretation of these properties is all really messy and
> historically not very uniformly done. Which is why i recommend the MAC
> does nothing, leaving it to the PHY. That generally works since the
> PHYs have a pretty uniform implementation. But in your case, you don't
> have that option. So i suggest you do what is described above. 
> 
>     Andrew

Sure Andrew, I will post new revision with the changes described above.

-- 
Thanks and Regards,
Danish.