Re: [PATCH 6/8] arm64: dts: imx8mm-kontron: Fix connection type for VSC8531 RGMII PHY

[Shawn Guo]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 05:56:29PM +0200, Frieder Schrempf wrote:
> From: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Previously we falsely relied on the PHY driver to unconditionally
> enable the internal RX delay. Since the following fix for the PHY
> driver this is not the case anymore:
> 
> commit 7b005a1742be ("net: phy: mscc: configure both RX and TX internal
> delays for RGMII")
> 
> In order to enable the delay we need to set the connection type to
> "rgmii-rxid".

Could you share some details of the issue that the delay is not enabled,
e.g. how broken the Ethernet support is without this change?

Shawn

> 
> Fixes: 21c4f45b335f ("arm64: dts: Add the Kontron i.MX8M Mini SoMs and baseboards")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mm-kontron-n801x-s.dts | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mm-kontron-n801x-s.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mm-kontron-n801x-s.dts
> index dbf11e03ecce..0e4509287a92 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mm-kontron-n801x-s.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mm-kontron-n801x-s.dts
> @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ &ecspi3 {
>  &fec1 {
>  	pinctrl-names = "default";
>  	pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_enet>;
> -	phy-connection-type = "rgmii";
> +	phy-connection-type = "rgmii-rxid";
>  	phy-handle = <&ethphy>;
>  	status = "okay";
>  
> -- 
> 2.33.0
>