Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/2] Convert ocelot to phylink

[Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>]

Hi,

On 15/08/2021 04:47:46+0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> The ocelot switchdev and felix dsa drivers are interesting because they
> target the same class of hardware switches but used in different modes.
> 
> Colin has an interesting use case where he wants to use a hardware
> switch supported by the ocelot switchdev driver with the felix dsa
> driver.
> 
> So far, the existing hardware revisions were similar between the ocelot
> and felix drivers, but not completely identical. With identical hardware,
> it is absurd that the felix driver uses phylink while the ocelot driver
> uses phylib - this should not be one of the differences between the
> switchdev and dsa driver, and we could eliminate it.
> 
> Colin will need the common phylink support in ocelot and felix when
> adding a phylink_pcs driver for the PCS1G block inside VSC7514, which
> will make the felix driver work with either the NXP or the Microchip PCS.
> 
> As usual, Alex, Horatiu, sorry for bugging you, but it would be
> appreciated if you could give this a quick run on actual VSC7514
> hardware (which I don't have) to make sure I'm not introducing any
> breakage.
> 

No worries, if there is any breakage, we'll fix it up.


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