netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/2] net:dsa:microchip: add property to select

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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:46:42 +0200
From: Ante Knezic <ante.knezic@...mholz.de>
To: <olteanv@...il.com>
CC: <UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com>, <andrew@...n.ch>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/2] net:dsa:microchip: add property to select

On  Mon, 23 Oct 2023 15:19:24 +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:

> I have no doubt that RMII settings are port settings. Scaling up the implementation
> to multiple ports on other switches doesn't mean that the DT binding shouldn't be
> per port.
> 
> Anyway, the per-port access to a global switch setting is indeed a common theme
> with the old Micrel switches. I once tried to introduce the concept of "wacky"
> regmap regfields for that:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20230316161250.3286055-3-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com/
> 
> but I don't have hardware to test and nobody who does picked up upon the regfield
> idea, it seems.

Ok so I see about moving this to port property.