Re: [net-next RFC PATCH v3 1/4] net: phy: pass PHY driver to .match_phy_device OP

[Christian Marangi]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 11:07:16AM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 12:35:01AM +0100, Christian Marangi wrote:
> > Pass PHY driver pointer to .match_phy_device OP in addition to phydev.
> > Having access to the PHY driver struct might be useful to check the
> > PHY ID of the driver is being matched for in case the PHY ID scanned in
> > the phydev is not consistent.
> > 
> > A scenario for this is a PHY that change PHY ID after a firmware is
> > loaded, in such case, the PHY ID stored in PHY device struct is not
> > valid anymore and PHY will manually scan the ID in the match_phy_device
> > function.
> > 
> > Having the PHY driver info is also useful for those PHY driver that
> > implement multiple simple .match_phy_device OP to match specific MMD PHY
> > ID. With this extra info if the parsing logic is the same, the matching
> > function can be generalized by using the phy_id in the PHY driver
> > instead of hardcoding.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Russell King (Oracle) <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Please also update the email address in the suggested-by to match the
> one in my reviewed-by for the next resend.
> 
> Thanks!
>

kernel test robot made me aware that this cause error with
nxp-c45-tja11xx. I was on an old net-next branch and didn't notice the
""recent"" changes to macsec support. I'm updating this and keeping the
reviewed-by tag, hope it's OK.

Also adding the simplify commit as suggested that recive the
match_phy_device.

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