[PATCH v1 0/6] Add fec1 and fec2 support for i.MX7d sdb board

[Duan Andy]

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 5:14 AM
> To: David Miller; Duan Fugang-B38611
> Cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org; shawnguo at kernel.org; linux-arm-
> kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/6] Add fec1 and fec2 support for i.MX7d sdb
> board
> 
> On 20/08/15 14:05, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Fugang Duan <b38611 at freescale.com>
> > Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:33:58 +0800
> >
> >> The patch series is to add fec support for i.MX7d sdb board. Since
> >> i.MX7d fec ip is the same as i.MX6SX, so there have no change for
> driver itself.
> >>
> >> Patch#1: add bcm54220 PHY ID entry into brcmphy.h file.
> >
> > This is completely, and utterly, pointless.
> >
> > The only reason a PHY ID should be defined in brcmphy.h is so that it
> > can be used in the broadcom.c PHY driver or similar.
> >
> > If there is no user in the tree, there is no reason to add it to the
> > header file.
> 
> There is a valid reason for which you may have a PHY id, which is
> defining a PHY fixup in your platform code like Andy is doing, however,
> this should not be used in conjunction with the Generic PHY driver,
> because this driver has absolutely no clue about your PHY fixup, and this
> could create at best inconsistencies in how the fixup is managed later on.
> 
> At the very least, I would like to see a change to
> drivers/net/phy/broadcom.c which identifies this PHY id, and eventually
> just invokes the genphy_* functions where relevant.
> --
> Florian

I will try to add the phy support in Broadcom phy driver. Thanks for your comments.

Regards,
Andy