Re: [PATCH net-next 00/19] net: phy: add support for shared interrupts (part 1)

From: Heiner Kallweit
Date: Fri Oct 30 2020 - 18:42:44 EST


On 30.10.2020 23:06, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 10:56:24PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>> I'd just like to avoid the term "shared interrupt", because it has
>> a well-defined meaning. Our major concern isn't shared interrupts
>> but support for multiple interrupt sources (in addition to
>> link change) in a PHY.
>
> You may be a little bit confused Heiner.
> This series adds support for exactly _that_ meaning of shared interrupts.
> Shared interrupts (aka wired-OR on the PCB) don't work today with the
> PHY library. I have a board that won't even boot to prompt when the
> interrupt lines of its 2 PHYs are enabled, that this series fixes.
> You might need to take another look through the commit messages I'm afraid.
>
Right, I was focusing on the PTP irq use case.