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

[Simon Horman]

On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 02:43:59PM +0200, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I guess so too.

> I'll fix that for next revision

Thanks!