[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 2/6] net: phy: ar803x: Make RGMII Tx delays actually configurable for AR8035

Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger at ni.com
Mon Feb 4 22:53:16 UTC 2019


On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 6:41 PM Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean at nxp.com> wrote:
>
> Delete the extraneous write to debug reg 5 that enables Tx delay
>
> When the driver was originally introduced in commit "6027384a phylib:
> Add Atheros AR8035 GETH PHY support", the Tx delay was being
> unconditionally enabled.
>
> Then during "2ec4d10b phy: atheros: add support for RGMII_ID, RGMII_TXID
> and RGMII_RXID", the author did not notice that code for enabling Tx
> delay code was already. Therefore, the if condition for Tx delay has
> always been useless for this PHY since this commit introduced it.
>
> Prior to this patch, every AR8035 PHY in U-boot had Tx delay enabled.
> After this patch, only those who define the interface as RGMII_TXID or
> RGMII_ID will. This is to be expected, but will nonetheless break the
> setups of those who didn't know they rely on Tx delay implicitly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean at nxp.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>


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