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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 05/11] net: stmmac: dwmac-rk: Add internal phy support
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Hi Florian,

在 2017/7/28 0:54, Florian Fainelli 写道:
> - if you need knowledge about this PHY connection type prior to binding
> the PHY device and its driver (that is, before of_phy_connect()) we
> could add a boolean property e.g: "phy-is-internal" that allows us to
> know that, or we can have a new phy-mode value, e.g: "internal-rmii"
> which describes that, either way would probably be fine, but the former
> scales better
>

Using "phy-is-internal" is very helpful, but it is easy to confuse with
the real internal PHY, may we use the other words like phy is inlined🙂.

> Then again, using phy-mode = "internal" even though this is Reduced MII
> is not big of a deal IMHO as long as there is no loss of information and
> that internal de-facto means internal reduced MII for instance.
> --

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