From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10D7C43331 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 07:02:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCC2920774 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 07:02:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729402AbgC3HCO (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2020 03:02:14 -0400 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([85.220.165.71]:47063 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729378AbgC3HCN (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2020 03:02:13 -0400 Received: from pty.hi.pengutronix.de ([2001:67c:670:100:1d::c5]) by metis.ext.pengutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jIoQx-0000IP-Kx; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:02:07 +0200 Received: from ore by pty.hi.pengutronix.de with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1jIoQv-0007Uu-Bq; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:02:05 +0200 Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:02:05 +0200 From: Oleksij Rempel To: Andrew Lunn Cc: Christian Herber , Rob Herring , Florian Fainelli , Mark Rutland , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Marek Vasut , netdev , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Pengutronix Kernel Team , David Jander , "David S. Miller" , Heiner Kallweit Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] dt-bindings: net: phy: Add support for NXP TJA11xx Message-ID: <20200330070205.pi5oaju5kjzjms5s@pengutronix.de> References: <20200323151423.GA32387@lunn.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200323151423.GA32387@lunn.ch> X-Sent-From: Pengutronix Hildesheim X-URL: http://www.pengutronix.de/ X-IRC: #ptxdist @freenode X-Accept-Language: de,en X-Accept-Content-Type: text/plain X-Uptime: 09:00:16 up 135 days, 22:18, 153 users, load average: 0.23, 0.08, 0.03 User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:67c:670:100:1d::c5 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ore@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 04:14:23PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > Yes, it is one device with two address. This is if you call the entire IC a device. If you look at it from a PHY perspective, it is two devices with 1 address. > > If you just look at it as a single device, it gets difficult to add PHY specific properties in the future, e.g. master/slave selection. > > > In my opinion its important to have some kind of container for the > > entire IC, but likewise for the individual PHYs. > > Yes, we need some sort of representation of two devices. > > Logically, the two PHYs are on the same MDIO bus, so you could have > two nodes on the main bus. > > Or you consider the secondary PHY as being on an internal MDIO bus > which is transparently bridged to the main bus. This is what was > proposed in the last patchset. > > Because this bridge is transparent, the rest of the PHY/MDIO framework > has no idea about it. So i prefer that we keep with two PHY nodes on > the main bus. But i still think we need the master PHY to register the > secondary PHY, due to the missing PHY ID, and the other constrains > like resets which the master PHY has to handle. this discussion is stalled. What is the final decision? What is the proper and mainlinable way? Regards, Oleksij -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |