[PATCH v2 4/5] net: cadence: macb: sama7g5_emac: Remove USARIO CLKEN flag

claudiu beznea claudiu.beznea at tuxon.dev
Sat Jul 26 05:56:20 PDT 2025


Hi, Ryan,

On 7/21/25 18:39, Ryan.Wanner at microchip.com wrote:
> On 7/18/25 04:00, Claudiu Beznea wrote:
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>>
>> Hi, Ryan,
>>
>> On 14.07.2025 19:37, Ryan.Wanner at microchip.com wrote:
>>> From: Ryan Wanner <Ryan.Wanner at microchip.com>
>>>
>>> Remove USARIO_CLKEN flag since this is now a device tree argument and
>>
>> s/USARIO_CLKEN/USRIO_HAS_CLKEN here and in title as well.
>>
>>> not fixed to the SoC.
>>>
>>> This will instead be selected by the "cdns,refclk-ext"
>>> device tree property.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ryan Wanner <Ryan.Wanner at microchip.com>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 3 +--
>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
>>> index 51667263c01d..cd54e4065690 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
>>> @@ -5113,8 +5113,7 @@ static const struct macb_config sama7g5_gem_config = {
>>>
>>>   static const struct macb_config sama7g5_emac_config = {
>>>        .caps = MACB_CAPS_USRIO_DEFAULT_IS_MII_GMII |
>>> -             MACB_CAPS_USRIO_HAS_CLKEN | MACB_CAPS_MIIONRGMII |
>>
>> Will old DTBs still work with new kernels with this change?
> 
> That was my assumption, but it seems it would be safer to keep this
> property for this IP and implement this dt flag property on IPs that do
> not already have  MACB_CAPS_USRIO_HAS_CLKEN property.

So, this patch should be reverted, right?

Thank you,
Claudiu

> 
> Ryan
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Claudiu
>>
>>> -             MACB_CAPS_GEM_HAS_PTP,
>>> +             MACB_CAPS_MIIONRGMII | MACB_CAPS_GEM_HAS_PTP,
>>>        .dma_burst_length = 16,
>>>        .clk_init = macb_clk_init,
>>>        .init = macb_init,
>>
> 




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