[PATCH net-next v4 02/10] net: stmmac: Add support for Allwinner A523 GMAC200

Chen-Yu Tsai wens at kernel.org
Thu Sep 11 11:17:55 PDT 2025


On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM Russell King (Oracle)
<linux at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I drafted this but never sent it and can't remember why, but it's
> relevant for v5 that you recently posted. Same concern with v5.
>
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 02:10:51AM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> > +     switch (plat->mac_interface) {
> > +     case PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_MII:
> > +             /* default */
> > +             break;
> > +     case PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII:
> > +     case PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_ID:
> > +     case PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_RXID:
> > +     case PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_TXID:
> > +             reg |= SYSCON_EPIT | SYSCON_ETCS_INT_GMII;
> > +             break;
> > +     case PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RMII:
> > +             reg |= SYSCON_RMII_EN;
> > +             break;
> > +     default:
> > +             return dev_err_probe(dev, -EINVAL, "Unsupported interface mode: %s",
> > +                                  phy_modes(plat->mac_interface));
>
> I'm guessing that there's no way that plat->phy_interface !=
> plat->mac_interface on this platform? If so, please use
> plat->phy_interface here.

Makes sense. Looking at stmmac_platform.c, for us mac_interface only comes
from phy_interface.

I'll wait a day before sending yet another version.

ChenYu



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