On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 05:19:29PM +0800, Andy Chiu wrote:
> In some SGMII use cases where both a fixed link external PHY and the
> internal PCS/PMA PHY need to be configured, we should explicitly use a
> phandle "pcs-phy" to get the reference to the PCS/PMA PHY. Otherwise, the
> driver would use "phy-handle" in the DT as the reference to both the
> external and the internal PCS/PMA PHY.
>
> In other cases where the core is connected to a SFP cage, we could still
> point phy-handle to the intenal PCS/PMA PHY, and let the driver connect
> to the SFP module, if exist, via phylink.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Greentime Hu <greentime.hu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Robert Hancock <robert.hancock@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
Andrew
