Re: [PATCH v5 00/20] net-next: stmmac: add dwmac-sun8i ethernet driver

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Mon May 01 2017 - 12:11:03 EST


> > > > Does the internal PHY have a phy driver? It seems like
> > > > tx-delay-ps/rx-delay-ps are properties of this internal PHY, and so
> > > > should be in the phy driver, if it has one.
> > >
> > > Nope. These affect the delay lines for the external PHY interface.
>
> I will add some sentences in the documentation to be more clear about that.

Thanks

>
> >
> > Oh, yes. I understood the patch wrong.
> >
> > None of the patches actually use these properties. Are they actually
> > needed? We should avoid adding vendor specific properties, if they are
> > not used.
> >
>
> The board that use it is the BananaPi M3, but the SoC A83T still lack clocks support.
> So theses properties is already used out of tree, and will be used in tree soon.

Fair enough.

Thanks
Andrew