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Date:   Mon, 15 Mar 2021 10:26:40 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To:     Steen Hegelund <steen.hegelund@microchip.com>
Cc:     Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>,
        Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 0/4] Adding the Sparx5 Serdes driver
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:04:24 +0100 Steen Hegelund wrote:
> Hi Kishon, Vinod, Andrew, Jacub, and David, 
> 
> I just wanted to know if you think that the Generic PHY subsystem might
> not be the right place for this Ethernet SerDes PHY driver after all.
> 
> Originally I chose this subsystem for historic reasons: The
> Microchip/Microsemi Ocelot SerDes driver was added here when it was
> upstreamed.
> On the other hand the Ocelot Serdes can do both PCIe and Ethernet, so
> it might fit the signature of a generic PHY better.

Are you saying this PHY is Ethernet only?

> At the moment the acceptance of the Sparx5 Serdes driver is blocking us
> from adding the Sparx5 SwitchDev driver (to net), so it is really
> important for us to resolve which subsystem the Serdes driver belongs
> to.
> 
> I am very much looking forward to your response.

FWIW even if this is merged via gen phy subsystem we can pull it into
net-next as well to unblock your other work in this dev cycle. You just
need to send the patches as a pull request, based on merge-base between
the gen phy tree and net-next.