On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 04:35:55PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 03:01:45PM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This series deprecates the "snps,en-tx-lpi-clockgating" property for > > stmmac. > > > > MII Transmit clock gating, where the MAC hardware supports gating this > > clock, is a function of the connected PHY capabilities, which it > > reports through its status register. > > > > GMAC versions that support transmit clock gating twiddle the LPITCSE > > bit accordingly in the LPI control/status register, which is handled > > by the GMAC core specific code. > > > > So, "snps,en-tx-lpi-clockgating" not something that is a GMAC property, > > but is a work-around for phylib not providing an interface to determine > > whether the PHY allows the transmit clock to be disabled. > > > > This series converts the two SoCs that make use of this property (which, > > I hasten to add, is set in the SoC code) to use the PHY capability bit > > instead of a DT property, then removes the DT property from the .dtsi, > > deprecates it in the snps,dwmac binding, and finally in the stmmac code. > > > > > I am expecting some discussion on how to merge this, as I think the > > order in which these changes is made is important - we don't want to > > deprecate the old way until the new code has landed. > > I'm happy enough to have the jh7110 dtsi change go via netdev, rather > than sit on till the driver change propagates to my tree in a release's > time. Thanks! Could I have a r-b or a-b for it please? -- RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTP is here! 80Mbps down 10Mbps up. Decent connectivity at last!
