From: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: phy: broadcom: add helper to write/read RDB registers
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 22:09:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f264bcad85571a44fabf33fe7e13664e@walle.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa126ad1-ae29-3da6-bd50-2c0444cfd691@gmail.com>
Am 2020-04-18 17:55, schrieb Florian Fainelli:
> On 4/18/2020 7:13 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 09:28:56PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
>>> RDB regsiters are used on newer Broadcom PHYs. Add helper to read,
>>> write
>>> and modify these registers.
>>
>> It would be nice to give a hint what RDB means?
>
> It means Register Data Base, it is meant to be a linear register
> offset as opposed to the more convulated shadow 18, 1c or other
> expansion registers.
Oh I just found some comment to another linux patch explaining this.
Because there is no trace what RDB actually means in the datasheets
from Broadcom I've seen so far.
-michael
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-18 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-17 19:28 [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: phy: broadcom: add helper to write/read RDB registers Michael Walle
2020-04-17 19:28 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] net: phy: add Broadcom BCM54140 support Michael Walle
2020-04-17 19:39 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-04-17 19:50 ` Michael Walle
2020-04-17 20:00 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-04-17 21:04 ` Michael Walle
2020-04-17 20:12 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-04-17 19:28 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: phy: bcm54140: add hwmon support Michael Walle
2020-04-17 19:50 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-04-17 19:53 ` Michael Walle
2020-04-17 20:13 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-04-17 21:08 ` Michael Walle
2020-04-17 21:28 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-04-19 10:29 ` Michael Walle
2020-04-19 16:29 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-04-19 16:47 ` Michael Walle
2020-04-19 17:05 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-04-19 21:31 ` Michael Walle
2020-04-19 21:55 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-04-20 15:10 ` Michael Walle
2020-04-20 15:36 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-04-20 16:11 ` Michael Walle
2020-04-20 17:20 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-04-19 17:12 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-04-18 3:09 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-04-17 19:34 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: phy: broadcom: add helper to write/read RDB registers Florian Fainelli
2020-04-18 14:13 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-04-18 15:55 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-04-18 20:09 ` Michael Walle [this message]
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