[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH 1/6] net: stmmac: support future possible different internal phy mode

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在 2017-06-30 00:23，David Miller 写道：
> From: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:28:01 +0200
> 
>> The current way to find if the phy is internal is to compare DT 
>> phy-mode
>> and emac_variant/internal_phy.
>> But it will negate a possible future SoC where an external PHY use the
>> same phy mode than the internal one.
>> 
>> By using phy-mode = "internal" we permit to have an external PHY with
>> the same mode than the internal one.
>> 
>> Reported-by: André Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie at gmail.com>
> 
> Series applied.

I think there's still some problems around for this patchset...
The definition of "internal" is internal *proprietary* PHY, but the
internal PHY of Allwinner SoCs seem to be MII...

See [1].

[1] 
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2017-June/516159.html

> 
> Please provide a proper "[PATCH 0/n] " header posting next time.