On 03.03.2019 16:58, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 05:15:56PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote: >> gen10g_read_status is deprecated, therefore stop exporting it. >> We don't want to encourage anybody to use it. > > Hi Florian, Heiner > Hi Andrew,
> We should consider what we want to do with the generic 10G driver. > > Can a c45 PHY be expected to work using a generic driver? We know > 1000BaseT is not going to work, that needs vendor registers. But the > rest might? > I think so. When looking at the Aquantia driver it should work with reduced functionality with a generic c45 driver. > I think we either need to drop the generic 10G driver, or make it use > all the new code which has been added over the last month. > Not sure whether anybody is relying on the gen10g driver currently. I'd say we could replace gen10g with a genc45 driver. It could provide the basic functionality for a new C45 PHY model until there's a dedicated PHY driver supporting the vendor-specific stuff and 1000BaseT. > Andrew > Heiner
