Re: [PATCH net-next v2 04/10] net: phy: replace is_c45 with phy_accces_mode

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Fri Jun 23 2023 - 15:56:53 EST


On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 07:34:22PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > @@ -131,9 +131,11 @@ int fwnode_mdiobus_register_phy(struct mii_bus *bus,
> >
> > is_c45 = fwnode_device_is_compatible(child, "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c45");
> > if (is_c45 || fwnode_get_phy_id(child, &phy_id))
> > - phy = get_phy_device(bus, addr, is_c45);
> > + phy = get_phy_device(bus, addr,
> > + is_c45 ? PHY_ACCESS_C45 : PHY_ACCESS_C22);
> > else
> > - phy = phy_device_create(bus, addr, phy_id, 0, NULL);
> > + phy = phy_device_create(bus, addr, phy_id, PHY_ACCESS_C22,
> > + NULL);
>
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml says:
>
> compatible:
> oneOf:
> - const: ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22
> description: PHYs that implement IEEE802.3 clause 22
> - const: ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c45
> description: PHYs that implement IEEE802.3 clause 45
>
> It would be nice to make this documentation more specific. It now
> refers to 'bus transaction', so maybe we want to append that to these
> lines?

Humm, looking at patch 9, maybe i got this wrong. Patch 9 seems to
suggest ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c45 means c45 register space, and it is
upto the core to figure out how to access that register space, either
using c45 transactions, or C45 over C22.

Andrew