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From: Andy Duan <fugang.duan@nxp.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Marco Hartmann <marco.hartmann@nxp.com>
Cc: "davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christian Herber <christian.herber@nxp.com>
Subject: RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 0/1] net: fec: add C45 MDIO read/write support
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 02:32:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <VI1PR0402MB360079EAAE7042048B2F5AC8FFAB0@VI1PR0402MB3600.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190819225422.GD29991@lunn.ch>

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 05:11:14PM +0000, Marco Hartmann wrote:
> > As of yet, the Fast Ethernet Controller (FEC) driver only supports
> > Clause 22 conform MDIO transactions. IEEE 802.3ae Clause 45 defines a
> > modified MDIO protocol that uses a two staged access model in order to
> > increase the address space.
> >
> > This patch adds support for Clause 45 conform MDIO read and write
> > operations to the FEC driver.
> 
> Hi Marco
> 
> Do all versions of the FEC hardware support C45? Or do we need to make use
> of the quirk support in this driver to just enable it for some revisions of FEC?
> 
> Thanks
>         Andrew

i.MX legacy platforms like i.MX6/7 series, they doesn't support Write & Read Increment.
But for i.MX8MQ/MM series, it support C45 full features like Write & Read Increment.

For the patch itself, it doesn't support Write & Read Increment, so I think the patch doesn't
need to add quirk support.

Andy

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-20  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-19 17:11 [PATCH net-next 0/1] net: fec: add C45 MDIO read/write support Marco Hartmann
2019-08-19 17:11 ` [PATCH net-next 1/1] " Marco Hartmann
2019-08-20  1:35   ` David Miller
2019-08-20  2:08   ` Andy Duan
2019-08-21 11:44     ` Marco Hartmann
2019-08-19 22:54 ` [PATCH net-next 0/1] net: " Andrew Lunn
2019-08-20  2:32   ` Andy Duan [this message]
2019-08-20 13:04     ` [EXT] " Andrew Lunn
2019-08-21  5:55       ` Andy Duan

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