Re: [PATCH net-next 3/8] net: dsa: microchip: add DSA support for microchip lan937x

[Prasanna Vengateshan Varadharajan]

On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 14:27 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
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> > > > +bool lan937x_is_internal_tx_phy_port(struct ksz_device *dev,
> > > > int
> > > > port)
> > > > +{
> > > > +     /* Check if the port is internal tx phy port */
> > > 
> > > What is an internal TX phy port? Is it actually a conventional t2
> > > Fast
> > > Ethernet port, as opposed to a t1 port?
> > This is 100 Base-Tx phy which is compliant with
> > 802.3/802.3u standards. Two of the SKUs have both T1 and TX
> > integrated
> > Phys as mentioned in the patch intro mail.
> 
> I don't think we have a good name for a conventional fast Ethernet.
> But since we call the other T1, since it has a single pair, maybe use
> T2, since Fast Ethernet uses 2 pair. I would also suggest a comment
> near this code explaining what T1 and T2 mean.
This is compliant with 802.3u (100 Base-Tx) as i mentioned above. So
naming it as "T2" would not match. Can we name it as "100BTX" instead
of Tx? Thanks.