[PATCH net-next 1/3] net: ethernet: mediatek: add extension of phy-mode for TRGMII

[Florian Fainelli]

On 09/21/2016 12:33 AM, Sean Wang wrote:
> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:23:24 -0700, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 09/20/2016 12:59 AM, sean.wang at mediatek.com wrote:
>>> From: Sean Wang <sean.wang at mediatek.com>
>>>
>>> adds PHY-mode "trgmii" as an extension for the operation
>>> mode of the PHY interface, TRGMII can be compatible with
>>> RGMII, so the extended mode doesn't really have effects on
>>> the target MAC and PHY, is used as the indication if the
>>> current MAC is connected to an internal switch or external
>>> PHY respectively by the given configuration on the board and
>>> then to perform the corresponding setup on TRGMII hardware
>>> module.
>>
>> Based on my googling, it seems like Turbo RGMII is a Mediatek-specific
>> thing for now, but this could become standard and used by other vendors
>> at some point, so I would be inclined to just extend the phy-mode
>> property to support trgmii as another interface type.
>>
>> If you do so, do you also mind proposing an update to the Device Tree
>> specification:
>>
>> https://www.devicetree.org/specifications/
>>
>> Thanks!
> 
> I am willing to do the these thing
> 
> 1)
> in the next version, I will extend rgmii mode as
> another interface type as PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_TRGMII
> defined in linux/phy.h instead of extension only inside
> the current driver. This change also helps to save some code.
> 
> 2)
> I send another separate patch for updating the Device Tree
> specification about TRGMII adding description
> 
> are these all okay for you?

Absolutely, thanks a lot!
-- 
Florian