[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] arm: socfpga: set skew settings for ethernet phy

[Pavel Machek]

On Sat 2014-11-15 22:29:00, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Saturday, November 15, 2014 at 08:54:06 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Fri 2014-11-14 21:02:48, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > On Friday, November 14, 2014 at 11:23:27 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > On Thu 2014-11-13 11:23:41, dinguyen at opensource.altera.com wrote:
> > > > > From: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen at opensource.altera.com>
> > > > > 
> > > > > Set the PHY skew settings for the ethernet phy on the SOCFPGA
> > > > > Cyclone5 hardware.
> > > > 
> > > > Is it to need similar settings for all ksz9021 phys? Should this go to
> > > > drivers/ as I suggested with a patch?
> > > 
> > > This is board specific, but with the driver model, this should be moved
> > > into the PHY driver and the values should be passed via platform data or
> > > DT.
> > > 
> > > I will apply this now, since it fixes real issue.
> > 
> > Hmm, could you apply the patch I posted, instead? It has configuration
> > in socfpga_config.h -- "platform data".
> 
> Hi!
> 
> The patch you provided (if we're referring to the same patch, Message-ID: 
> <20141113120956.GB30779 at amd>) breaks every board which uses the Micrel PHY, 
> doesn't it ? The problem for all other boards would be the new CONFIG_* options
> which are added into the Micrel driver by that patch. Furthermore, the patch 
> doesn't even apply, it was decided that the patch was an RFC, wasn't it ?
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.

The purpose of that mail was to show that there's better way, so that
someone (you) would not apply bandaid when something close to real fix
is available.

I overlooked the "breaks compilation" part, but I'm sure it could have
been solved with strategicaly placed #ifdef. Notice original patch
submission in

>From pavel at denx.de Sat Oct 25 13:27:52 2014
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 13:27:52 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel at denx.de>
Subject: [patch] net: micrel: configure skew values for 
Message-ID: <20141025112752.GA19599 at amd>

it is cleaner then <20141113120956.GB30779 at amd> version. I don't think
I received any reply there.

But the patch you have just merged would interfere with my approach,
and makes it unneccessary, so I'll let you solve it.

Best regards,
									Pavel
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