[net-next: PATCH 0/8] Armada 7k/8k PP2 ACPI support

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Tue Jan 9 05:00:12 PST 2018


On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 11:22:00AM +0100, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> 2018-01-09 11:19 GMT+01:00 Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory at linaro.org>:
> > On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 06:17:06PM +0100, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> >> Hi Andrew,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2018-01-08 16:42 GMT+01:00 Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>:
> >> > w> I am not familiar with MDIO, but if its similar or a specific
> >> >> implementation of a serial bus that does sound sane!
> >> >
> >>
> >> Thanks for digging, I will check if and how we can use
> >> GenericSerialBus with MDIO.
> >>
> > Maybe Lorenzo, Hanjun, Sudeep can comment here they might have come
> > across similar on other ARM boards.
> >
> 
> I'm looking forward to their feedback, however, what I've noticed,
> each driver handles mdio/phys on its own, not using any generic
> solution, which is what I need to actually avoid :)

Agreed. Lets define it once for all drivers using phylib/phylink.

	Andrew



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