On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 14:18:54 -0400 Sean Anderson <sean.ander...@linux.dev> wrote:
> This series adds support for creating PCSs as devices on a bus with a > driver (patch 3). As initial users, > > - The Lynx PCS (and all of its users) is converted to this system (patch 5) > - The Xilinx PCS is broken out from the AXI Ethernet driver (patches 6-8) > - The Cadence MACB driver is converted to support external PCSs (namely > the Xilinx PCS) (patches 9-10). > > The last few patches add device links for pcs-handle to improve boot times, > and add compatibles for all Lynx PCSs. > > Care has been taken to ensure backwards-compatibility. The main source > of this is that many PCS devices lack compatibles and get detected as > PHYs. To address this, pcs_get_by_fwnode_compat allows drivers to edit > the devicetree to add appropriate compatibles. I don't dive into your patch series and I don't know if you have heard about it but Christian Marangi is currently working on fwnode for PCS: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250406221423.9723-1-ansuels...@gmail.com Maybe you should sync with him! Regards, -- Köry Maincent, Bootlin Embedded Linux and kernel engineering https://bootlin.com
