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Commit 642af0f9 authored by Maxime Chevallier's avatar Maxime Chevallier Committed by David S. Miller
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net: mdio: Introduce a regmap-based mdio driver



There exists several examples today of devices that embed an ethernet
PHY or PCS directly inside an SoC. In this situation, either the device
is controlled through a vendor-specific register set, or sometimes
exposes the standard 802.3 registers that are typically accessed over
MDIO.

As phylib and phylink are designed to use mdiodevices, this driver
allows creating a virtual MDIO bus, that translates mdiodev register
accesses to regmap accesses.

The reason we use regmap is because there are at least 3 such devices
known today, 2 of them are Altera TSE PCS's, memory-mapped, exposed
with a 4-byte stride in stmmac's dwmac-socfpga variant, and a 2-byte
stride in altera-tse. The other one (nxp,sja1110-base-tx-mdio) is
exposed over SPI.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMaxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSimon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent f69de8aa
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