Re: [PATCH] devicetree: net: micrel-ksz90x1.txt: Properly explain skew settings

From	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Subject	Re: [PATCH] devicetree: net: micrel-ksz90x1.txt: Properly explain skew settings
Date	2016-10-07 02:50 +0200
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From: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
Date: Wed,  5 Oct 2016 16:03:08 +0200

> The KSZ9031 skew registers contain an offset, the chip's default value
> is "neutral" which does not add any skew. Programming a 0 into a skew
> property will actually set it the maximal negative adjustment and not
> to a neutral position as one would expect.
> 
> Explain this situation in the devicetree binding documentation and list
> the settings that the chip considers neutral.
> 
> Changing the implementation to accept negative values would have been
> a better solution, but would break existing configurations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>

Applied.

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[PATCH] devicetree: net: micrel-ksz90x1.txt: Properly explain skew settings Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl> - 2016-10-05 16:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] devicetree: net: micrel-ksz90x1.txt: Properly explain  skew settings Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 13:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] devicetree: net: micrel-ksz90x1.txt: Properly explain  skew settings David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-10-07 02:50 +0200

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