Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] net: phy: introduce fixed_phy_create for DSA CPU ports

2021-02-16 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 02:23:52PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote: > From: Vladimir Oltean > > The DSA (Distributed Switch Architecture) implementation has made a > design decision when it got introduced to the Linux kernel in 2008. > That was to hide away from the user the CPU-facing Ethernet MAC

RE: [PATCH v4 2/7] net: phy: introduce fixed_phy_create for DSA CPU ports

2021-01-27 Thread Claudiu Manoil
>-Original Message- >From: Vladimir Oltean >Sent: Monday, January 25, 2021 2:24 PM >To: Tom Rini ; Joe Hershberger >; Simon Glass ; Bin Meng >; u-boot@lists.denx.de >Cc: Michael Walle ; Alexandru Marginean >; Claudiu Manoil > >Subject: [PATCH v4 2/7] net: p

[PATCH v4 2/7] net: phy: introduce fixed_phy_create for DSA CPU ports

2021-01-25 Thread Vladimir Oltean
From: Vladimir Oltean The DSA (Distributed Switch Architecture) implementation has made a design decision when it got introduced to the Linux kernel in 2008. That was to hide away from the user the CPU-facing Ethernet MAC, since it does not make sense to register it as a struct net_device (UCLASS