Re: [PATCH net-next v18 00/10] net: phy_port: SFP modules representation and phy_port listing

[Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)]

Le 27/09/2026 à 15:36, Maxime Chevallier a écrit :
> Hello everyone,
>
> Here's V18 for the phy_port improved SFP support and netlink interface.
>
> V18 aggregates Andrew's reviews (thanks !) and Aleksei Tested-by tags
> (thank you as well, this is nice). It also contains a few tweaks
> following sashiko and Aleksei's report after testing, the ops-locked
> check also checks for NULL netdev ops. I also added a missing rtnl()
> around port deletion in phylink, and changed a bitfield to a bool in
> phy.h following sashiko and Aleksei's reviews.
>
> This work extends on the recent addition of phy_port representation to enable
> listing the front-facing ports of an interface. For now, we don't control
> these ports, we merely list their presence and their capabilities.
>
> As the most common use-case of multi-port interfaces is combo-ports that
> provide both RJ45 and SFP connectors on a single MAC, there's a lot of
> SFP stuff in this series.
>
> This series is in 2 main parts. The first one aims at representing the
> SFP cages and modules using phy_port, as combo-ports with RJ45 + SFP are
> by far the most common cases for multi-connector setups.
>
> The second part is the netlink interface to list those ports, now that
> most use-cases are covered.
>
> Let's see what we can do with some examples of the new ethtool API :
>
> - Get MII interfaces supported by an empty SFP cage :
>
> # ethtool --show-ports eth3
>
> Port for eth3:
> 	Port id: 1
> 	Supported MII interfaces : sgmii, 1000base-x, 2500base-x
> 	Port type: sfp
>
> - Get Combo-ports supported modes, on each port :
>
> # ethtool --show-ports eth1
>
> Port for eth1:
> 	Port id: 1
> 	Supported link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
> 	                       100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
> 	                       1000baseT/Full
> 	                       10000baseT/Full
> 	                       2500baseT/Full
> 	                       5000baseT/Full
>
> 	Port type: mdi
>
> Port for eth1:
> 	Port id: 2
> 	Supported MII interfaces : 10gbase-r
> 	Port type: sfp
>
> - Get Achievable linkmodes on a SFP module (combo port with a DAC in the
> SFP cage)
>
> # ethtool --show-ports eth1
>
> Port for eth1:
> 	Port id: 1
> 	Supported link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
> 	                       100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
> 	                       1000baseT/Full
> 	                       10000baseT/Full
> 	                       2500baseT/Full
> 	                       5000baseT/Full
> 	Port type: mdi
>
> Port for eth1:
> 	Port id: 2
> 	Supported MII interfaces : 10gbase-r
> 	Port type: sfp
>
> Port for eth1:
> 	Port id: 3
> 	Upstream id: 2
> 	Supported link modes:  10000baseCR/Full
> 	Port type: mdi
>
> Note that here, we have 3 ports :
>   - The Copper port
>   - The SFP Cage itself,
>   - The SFP module
>
> This series builds on top of phy_port and phy_link_topology to allow
> tracking the ports of an interface. We maintain a list of supported
> linkmodes/interfaces on each port, which allows for fine-grained
> reporting of each port's capability.
>
> What this series doesn't do :
>   - We don't support selecting which port is active. This is the next step.
>   - We only support PHY-driven combo ports. The end-goal of this whole
>     journey that started with phy_link_topology is to get support for MII
>     muxes, such as the one we have on the Turris Omnia. This will eventually
>     be upstreamed as well.
>
> If you want to play around with it, here's [1] the patched ethtool that I've
> been using to produce the outputs above.
>
> Thanks !

Tested on one of my powerpc boards, I get the expected result:

~# ./ethtool --show-ports eth0

Port for eth0:
Port id: 1
Port type: phy
forced : off

Tested-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looking forward to the support for MII muxes.