netdev - Re: [PATCH net 3/3] net: phy: mscc: enable VSC8501/2 RGMII RX clock

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Message-ID: <20230522154217.ganjnt2bng5wxng6@skbuf>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 18:42:17 +0300
From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To: David Epping <david.epping@...singlinkelectronics.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 3/3] net: phy: mscc: enable VSC8501/2 RGMII RX clock

On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 05:22:21PM +0200, David Epping wrote:
> > > Also we don't want to enable for
> > > all PHY types, and the differentiation is already available at the
> > > caller. I would thus opt for a separate function and fewer conditional
> > > statements.
> > 
> > I don't understand this. We don't? For what PHY types don't we want to
> > enable the RX_CLK?
> 
> I meant all PHYs using vsc85xx_rgmii_set_skews() via vsc8584_config_init().

Aha. By "PHY types" I thought you mean "PHY interface types" like RGMII/GMII/MII,
not PHY device models.

> As you pointed out they don't have a clear definition of what bit 11 means
> for them.

And I wasn't suggesting to make bit 11 part of the modified "mask" for them.

> But we can easily differentiate using the condition you suggested.
> I'll do that for the new patch version.

Sounds good, thanks.