Re: [RFC net-next 1/4] net: phy: add MediaTek PHY driver

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 11:47:08PM +0800, Chun-Kuang Hu wrote:
> Hi, Qingfang:
> 
> DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com> 於 2021年4月6日 週二 下午10:19寫道：
> >
> > Add support for MediaTek PHYs found in MT7530 and MT7531 switches.
> > The initialization procedure is from the vendor driver, but due to lack
> > of documentation, the function of some register values remains unknown.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/phy/Kconfig    |   5 ++
> >  drivers/net/phy/Makefile   |   1 +
> >  drivers/net/phy/mediatek.c | 109 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 115 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/net/phy/mediatek.c
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig b/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig
> > index a615b3660b05..edd858cec9ec 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig
> > @@ -207,6 +207,11 @@ config MARVELL_88X2222_PHY
> >           Support for the Marvell 88X2222 Dual-port Multi-speed Ethernet
> >           Transceiver.
> >
> > +config MEDIATEK_PHY
> 
> There are many Mediatek phy drivers in [1], so use a specific name.

Those are generic PHY drivers, where as this patch is add a PHY
driver. The naming used in this patch is consistent with other PHY
drivers. So i'm happy with this patch in this respect.

PHY drivers have been around a lot longer than generic PHY drivers. So
i would actually say the generic PHY driver naming should make it
clear they are generic PHYs, not PHYs.

But lets not bike shed about this too much.

      Andrew