On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:04:24 +0100 Steen Hegelund wrote: > Hi Kishon, Vinod, Andrew, Jacub, and David, > > I just wanted to know if you think that the Generic PHY subsystem might > not be the right place for this Ethernet SerDes PHY driver after all. > > Originally I chose this subsystem for historic reasons: The > Microchip/Microsemi Ocelot SerDes driver was added here when it was > upstreamed. > On the other hand the Ocelot Serdes can do both PCIe and Ethernet, so > it might fit the signature of a generic PHY better.
Are you saying this PHY is Ethernet only? > At the moment the acceptance of the Sparx5 Serdes driver is blocking us > from adding the Sparx5 SwitchDev driver (to net), so it is really > important for us to resolve which subsystem the Serdes driver belongs > to. > > I am very much looking forward to your response. FWIW even if this is merged via gen phy subsystem we can pull it into net-next as well to unblock your other work in this dev cycle. You just need to send the patches as a pull request, based on merge-base between the gen phy tree and net-next.
