A recent patch from Heiner made me curious if the RTL8211F part of the realtek.c PHY driver is correct: [0] I contacted Realtek and asked if we could get a datasheet for the RTL8211F PHY. it seems that the full datasheet can only be obtained with an NDA. however, the contact at Realtek kindly answered all questions I had regarding the RTL8211F PHY (thank you very much again!). I am not permitted to share the exact answers I received, but I am allowed to put them into my own words.
This series is a result of the conversation with Realtek: the main intention behind this series is to *document* the information I got. I am not aware of any board which needs the RX delay, has a problem with the INTB pin configuration or requires any of the additional interrupts. I only tested that these patches don't break existing functionality on Khadas VIM2 board with RTL8211F PHY. PS: I also received information about the RTL8211E PHY's RX and TX delay configuration. however, I don't understand that part of the datasheet so I did not add any #defines in patch #3. the datasheet says that: - TX delay is configured through bit 12 and bit 13 in register 0x1c in page 0xa4 (value 1 = enabled, 0 = disabled) - RX delay is configured through bit 11 and bit 13 in register 0x1c in page 0xa4 (value 1 = enabled, 0 = disabled) I don't have any board with a RTL8211E PHY, so I could not test this part at all. thus I don't know why bit 13 is listed for both, RX and TX delay. I do not expect that this series is applied. if someone is interested in testing this: it applies on top of my other series: "Realtek Ethernet PHY driver improvements" [1] [0] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg466661.html [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=151225151410593&w=2 Martin Blumenstingl (3): net: phy: realtek: add support for configuring the RX delay on RTL8211F net: phy: realtek: configure the INTB pin on RTL8211F net: phy: realtek: add more interrupt bits for RTL8211E and RTL8211F drivers/net/phy/realtek.c | 89 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) -- 2.15.1