Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] phy: Add lan966x ethernet serdes PHY driver

[Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@microchip.com>]

The 10/21/2021 23:19, Vinod Koul wrote:
> 
> On 21-10-21, 11:10, Horatiu Vultur wrote:
> > The 10/21/2021 11:40, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > >
> > > On 20-10-21, 17:49, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > > > On 20/10/2021 21:05:49+0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > > > > > > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR MIT)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Any reason why this is dual licensed, why not GPL only?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > No reason, I think I copy this from a different file.
> > > > >
> > > > > Please have a chat with your lawyers on the correct license this should
> > > > > have!
> > > > Dual GPL and MIT was Microsemi's policy, I'm not sure it carried over to
> > > > Microchip.
> > >
> > > That is why they need to talk to someone and decide what license
> > > applies :)
> >
> > I have changed it to be the same as the one on sparx5 because also
> > sparx5 is a Microchip product. On sparx5 we used:
> > 'SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later'
> 
> Has the code been copied/derived from somewhere/auto generated from
> scripts/tools or entirely written by you?

Sorry for late reply, but I was out of office without access to the
emails.

The register file 'lan966x_serdes_regs.h' was autogenerated from some
internal scripts. Which takes the info from here [1] and generates these
header files. The reason why we generate them is that is more error proof
that writting them manually. We are doing the same for sparx5
registers[2]

The other file 'lan966x_serdes.c' was entirely written by me.

[1] https://github.com/microchip-ung/lan9668_reginfo
[2] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/phy/microchip/sparx5_serdes_regs.h

> 
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> ~Vinod

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/Horatiu