Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] net: mdio: Introduce a regmap-based mdio driver

[Maxime Chevallier]

Hello Simon,

On Thu, 25 May 2023 13:02:39 +0200
Simon Horman <simon.horman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 12:11:23PM +0200, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> > There exists several examples today of devices that embed an
> > ethernet PHY or PCS directly inside an SoC. In this situation,
> > either the device is controlled through a vendor-specific register
> > set, or sometimes exposes the standard 802.3 registers that are
> > typically accessed over MDIO.
> > 
> > As phylib and phylink are designed to use mdiodevices, this driver
> > allows creating a virtual MDIO bus, that translates mdiodev register
> > accesses to regmap accesses.
> > 
> > The reason we use regmap is because there are at least 3 such
> > devices known today, 2 of them are Altera TSE PCS's, memory-mapped,
> > exposed with a 4-byte stride in stmmac's dwmac-socfpga variant, and
> > a 2-byte stride in altera-tse. The other one
> > (nxp,sja1110-base-tx-mdio) is exposed over SPI.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@xxxxxxxxxxx>  
> 
> ...
> 
> > +struct mii_bus *devm_mdio_regmap_register(struct device *dev,
> > +					  const struct
> > mdio_regmap_config *config) +{
> > +	struct mdio_regmap_config *mrc;
> > +	struct mii_bus *mii;
> > +	int rc;
> > +
> > +	if (!config->parent)
> > +		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> > +
> > +	mii = devm_mdiobus_alloc_size(config->parent,
> > sizeof(*mrc));
> > +	if (!mii)
> > +		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> > +
> > +	mrc = mii->priv;
> > +	memcpy(mrc, config, sizeof(*mrc));
> > +
> > +	mrc->regmap = config->regmap;
> > +	mrc->valid_addr = config->valid_addr;
> > +
> > +	mii->name = DRV_NAME;
> > +	strscpy(mii->id, config->name, MII_BUS_ID_SIZE);
> > +	mii->parent = config->parent;
> > +	mii->read = mdio_regmap_read_c22;
> > +	mii->write = mdio_regmap_write_c22;
> > +
> > +	if (config->autoscan)
> > +		mii->phy_mask = ~BIT(config->valid_addr);
> > +	else
> > +		mii->phy_mask = ~0UL;  
> 
> Hi Maxime,
> 
> phy_mask is a u32.
> But 0UL may be either 32 or 64 bits wide.

Right

> I think a better approach would be to use U32_MAX.

I guess ~0 would also work, and this would also align with what
fixed-phy and sfp do for their internal MDIO bus.

I'll fix that for next revision

Thanks,

Maxime
> > +
> > +	rc = devm_mdiobus_register(dev, mii);
> > +	if (rc) {
> > +		dev_err(config->parent, "Cannot register MDIO
> > bus![%s] (%d)\n", mii->id, rc);
> > +		return ERR_PTR(rc);
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	return mii;
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_mdio_regmap_register);
> > +
> > +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MDIO API over regmap");
> > +MODULE_AUTHOR("Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@xxxxxxxxxxx>");
> > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");