Re: [net-next PATCH 09/13] net: dsa: qca8k: check rgmii also on port 6 if exchanged

[Florian Fainelli]

On 10/7/21 6:31 AM, Ansuel Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 02:24:08AM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 12:35:59AM +0200, Ansuel Smith wrote:
>>> Port 0 can be exchanged with port6. Handle this special case by also
>>> checking the port6 if present.
>>
>> This is messy.
>>
>> The DSA core has no idea the ports have been swapped, so the interface
>> names are going to be taken from DT unswaped. Now you appear to be
>> taking phy-mode from the other port in DT. That is inconsistent. All
>> the configuration for a port should come from the same place, nothing
>> gets swapped. Or everything needs to swap, which means you need to
>> change the DSA core.
>>
>>     Andrew
> 
> The swap is internal. So from the dts side we still use port0 as port0,
> it's just swapped internally in the switch.
> The change here is required as this scan the rgmii delay and sets the
> value to be set later in the phylink mac config.
> We currently assume that only one cpu port is supported and that can be
> sgmii or rgmii. This specific switch have 2 cpu port and we can have one
> config with cpu port0 set to sgmii and cpu port6 set to rgmii-id.
> This patch is to address this and to add the delay function to scan also
> for the secondary cpu port. (again the real value will be set in the mac
> config function)
> Honestly i think we should just rework this and move the delay logic
> directly in the mac_config function and scan there directly. What do you
> think? That way we should be able to generalize this and drop the extra
> if.

Agreed, the whole port swapping business is really hairy and seems like
it will led to unpleasant surprises down the road.
-- 
Florian