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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stas Sergeev <stsp@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] mvneta: SGMII-based in-band link state signaling
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:59:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150327135904.GB11975@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <551560B9.1030505@list.ru>

> But there is no MDIO, because SGMII AFAIK doesn't need MDIO.
> SGMII has in-band status, but for some reason it seems currently
> linux is not ready for such setup - this is what my patch addresses.

Hacking the fixed-link driver feels wrong to me. You probably want to
implement an SGMII-link driver. With some refactoring you can probably
re-use some of the fixed-link driver code, but it should be a separate
driver, with its own DT binding.

But i'm no export here. So lets see what others say.

    Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-27 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-27 13:28 Stas Sergeev
2015-03-27 13:31 ` PATCH 1/6] fixed_phy: pass phy_device instead of net_device to link_update() function Stas Sergeev
2015-03-27 13:33 ` [PATCH 2/6] fixed_phy: add fixed_phy_unregister() Stas Sergeev
2015-03-27 13:34 ` [PATCH 1/6] fixed_phy: pass phy_device instead of net_device to link_update() function Stas Sergeev
2015-03-27 13:35 ` [PATCH 3/6] of_mdio: restructure of_phy_register_fixed_link() for further modifications Stas Sergeev
2015-03-27 13:37 ` [PATCH 4/6] of: add API for changing parameters of fixed link Stas Sergeev
2015-03-27 15:41   ` Florian Fainelli
2015-03-27 16:07     ` Stas Sergeev
2015-03-27 16:21       ` Florian Fainelli
2015-03-27 16:39         ` Stas Sergeev
2015-03-27 17:15           ` Florian Fainelli
2015-03-27 17:31             ` Stas Sergeev
2015-03-30 14:39             ` Stas Sergeev
2015-03-30 16:06               ` Florian Fainelli
2015-03-30 17:04                 ` Stas Sergeev
2015-03-31 17:11                 ` Stas Sergeev
2015-03-27 13:39 ` [PATCH 0/6] mvneta: SGMII-based in-band link state signaling Andrew Lunn
2015-03-27 13:52   ` Stas Sergeev
2015-03-27 13:59     ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2015-03-27 14:20       ` Stas Sergeev
2015-03-27 15:44         ` Florian Fainelli
2015-03-27 13:39 ` [PATCH 5/6] mvneta: implement " Stas Sergeev
2015-07-08 16:30   ` [5/6] " Sebastien Rannou
2015-07-08 16:51     ` Stas Sergeev
2015-07-09  9:03       ` Sebastien Rannou
2015-07-09  9:19         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-07-09 10:11           ` Stas Sergeev
2015-03-27 13:40 ` [PATCH 6/6] mvneta: port marvell's official in-band status enabling procedure Stas Sergeev

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