Re: [PATCH V3] net/dt: Add support for overriding phy configurationfrom device tree

[Gerlando Falauto]

Hi,

I'm currently trying to fix an issue for which this patch provides a 
partial solution, so apologies in advance for jumping into the 
discussion for my own purposes...

On 02/04/2014 09:39 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:> 2014-01-17 Matthew 
Garrett <matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Some hardware may be broken in interesting and board-specific ways, such
>> that various bits of functionality don't work. This patch provides a
>> mechanism for overriding mii registers during init based on the 
contents of
>> the device tree data, allowing board-specific fixups without having to
>> pollute generic code.
>
> It would be good to explain exactly how your hardware is broken
> exactly. I really do not think that such a fine-grained setting where
> you could disable, e.g: 100BaseT_Full, but allow 100BaseT_Half to
> remain usable makes that much sense. In general, Gigabit might be
> badly broken, but 100 and 10Mbits/sec should work fine. How about the
> MASTER-SLAVE bit, is overriding it really required?
>
> Is not a PHY fixup registered for a specific OUI the solution you are
> looking for? I am also concerned that this creates PHY troubleshooting
> issues much harder to debug than before as we may have no idea about
> how much information has been put in Device Tree to override that.
>
> Finally, how about making this more general just like the BCM87xx PHY
> driver, which is supplied value/reg pairs directly? There are 16
> common MII registers, and 16 others for vendor specific registers,
> this is just covering for about 2% of the possible changes.

Good point. That would easily help me with my current issue, which 
requires autoneg to be disabled to begin with (by clearing BMCR_ANENABLE 
from register 0).
This would not however fix it entirely (I tried a quick hardwired 
implementation), as the whole PHY machinery would not take that into 
account and would re-enable autoneg anyway.
I also tried changing the patch so that phydev->support gets updated 
(instead of phydev->advertising):

>> +               if (!of_property_read_u32(np, override->prop, &tmp)) {
>> +                       if (tmp) {
>> +                               *val |= override->value;
>> +                               phydev->advertising |= 
override->supported;
>> +                       } else {
>> +                               phydev->advertising &= 
~(override->supported);
>> +                       }
>> +
>> +                       *mask |= override->value;

What I find weird is that the only way phydev->autoneg could ever be set 
to disabled is from here (phy.c):

static void phy_sanitize_settings(struct phy_device *phydev)
{
	u32 features = phydev->supported;
	int idx;

	/* Sanitize settings based on PHY capabilities */
	if ((features & SUPPORTED_Autoneg) == 0)
		phydev->autoneg = AUTONEG_DISABLE;

which is in turn only called when phydev->autoneg is set to 
AUTONEG_DISABLE to begin with:

int phy_start_aneg(struct phy_device *phydev)
{
	int err;

	mutex_lock(&phydev->lock);

	if (AUTONEG_DISABLE == phydev->autoneg)
		phy_sanitize_settings(phydev);

So could someone please help me figure out what I'm missing here?

Thanks!
Gerlando
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