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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Siddharth Vadapalli <s-vadapalli@ti.com>
Cc: hkallweit1@gmail.com, linux@armlinux.org.uk, davem@davemloft.net,
	edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, srk@ti.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] net: phy: dp83869: fix mii mode when rgmii strap cfg is used
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 14:04:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5c5b4e6-c0a6-4782-b1a7-822df6369cc4@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cce70be8-4d2a-1499-fea5-5efa6c5f1420@ti.com>

> > If you say so. I was just thinking you could give the poor software
> > engineer a hint the hardware engineer has put on strapping resistors
> > which means the PHY is not going to work.
> 
> I understand now. I will update this patch to add a print if the MII mode is not
> valid with the configured "dp83869->mode". Would you suggest using a dev_err()
> or a dev_dbg()?

dev_err(). And you can return -EINVAL when asked to set the interface
mode.

	Andrew

      reply	other threads:[~2023-04-27 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-25  5:44 [RFC PATCH 0/2] DP83867/DP83869 Ethernet PHY workaround/fix Siddharth Vadapalli
2023-04-25  5:44 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] net: phy: dp83867: add w/a for packet errors seen with short cables Siddharth Vadapalli
2023-04-25 12:05   ` Andrew Lunn
2023-04-26  5:09     ` Siddharth Vadapalli
2023-04-26 12:36       ` Andrew Lunn
2023-04-27  4:02         ` Siddharth Vadapalli
2023-04-25  5:44 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] net: phy: dp83869: fix mii mode when rgmii strap cfg is used Siddharth Vadapalli
2023-04-25 12:18   ` Andrew Lunn
2023-04-26  5:49     ` Siddharth Vadapalli
2023-04-26 12:41       ` Andrew Lunn
2023-04-27  4:08         ` Siddharth Vadapalli
2023-04-27 12:04           ` Andrew Lunn [this message]

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