On 11/15/2016 12:46 PM, Lino Sanfilippo wrote: >> Could this be pulled out into a standard PHY driver? All the SLIC >> SLIC_PCR_ defines seems to be the same as those in mii.h. This could >> be a standard PHY hidden behind a single register. >> >> Andrew > > You are right, the driver should really use the defines in mii.h. I will fix > this in > a v2. > > Concerning the use of the PHY API: What would be the advantage of using it? > Note that the > phy is always internal and not interchangeable. Is not the > interchangeability of PHYs > the main reason for using this API?
Not reinventing the wheel primarily, while PHYLIB also solves the plug & play aspect of external PHYs, it also solves the basic link management, and consistent and reasonably well defined interface to user-space and drivers (statistics reporting, link, auto-negotiation, EEE etc.). -- Florian
