[PATCH net-next 1/2] net: phy: dp83867: remove check of delay strap configuration

From: Matthias Schiffer
Date: Mon Apr 14 2025 - 10:41:03 EST


The check that intended to handle "rgmii" PHY mode differently from the
other RGMII modes never worked as intended:

- added in commit 2a10154abcb7 ("net: phy: dp83867: Add TI dp83867 phy"):
logic error caused the condition to always evaluate to true
- changed in commit a46fa260f6f5 ("net: phy: dp83867: Fix warning check
for setting the internal delay"): now the condition always evaluates
to false
- removed in commit 2b892649254f ("net: phy: dp83867: Set up RGMII TX
delay")

Around the time of the removal, commit c11669a2757e ("net: phy: dp83867:
Rework delay rgmii delay handling") started clearing the delay enable
flags in RGMIICTL (or it would have, if the condition ever evaluated to
true at that time). The change attempted to preserve the historical
behavior of not disabling internal delays with "rgmii" PHY mode and also
documented this in a comment, but due to a conflict between "Set up
RGMII TX delay" and "Rework delay rgmii delay handling", the behavior
dp83867_verify_rgmii_cfg() warned about (and that was also described in
a commit in dp83867_config_init()) disappeared in the following merge
of net into net-next in commit b4b12b0d2f02
("Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net").

While is doesn't appear that this breaking change was intentional, it
has been like this since 2019, and the new behavior to disable the delays
with "rgmii" PHY mode is generally desirable - in particular with MAC
drivers that have to fix up the delay mode, resulting in the PHY driver
not even seeing the same mode that was specified in the Device Tree.

Remove the obsolete check and comment.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <matthias.schiffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/phy/dp83867.c | 32 +-------------------------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/dp83867.c b/drivers/net/phy/dp83867.c
index 063266cafe9c7..e5b0c1b7be13f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/dp83867.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/dp83867.c
@@ -92,11 +92,6 @@
#define DP83867_STRAP_STS1_RESERVED BIT(11)

/* STRAP_STS2 bits */
-#define DP83867_STRAP_STS2_CLK_SKEW_TX_MASK GENMASK(6, 4)
-#define DP83867_STRAP_STS2_CLK_SKEW_TX_SHIFT 4
-#define DP83867_STRAP_STS2_CLK_SKEW_RX_MASK GENMASK(2, 0)
-#define DP83867_STRAP_STS2_CLK_SKEW_RX_SHIFT 0
-#define DP83867_STRAP_STS2_CLK_SKEW_NONE BIT(2)
#define DP83867_STRAP_STS2_STRAP_FLD BIT(10)

/* PHY CTRL bits */
@@ -510,25 +505,6 @@ static int dp83867_verify_rgmii_cfg(struct phy_device *phydev)
{
struct dp83867_private *dp83867 = phydev->priv;

- /* Existing behavior was to use default pin strapping delay in rgmii
- * mode, but rgmii should have meant no delay. Warn existing users.
- */
- if (phydev->interface == PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII) {
- const u16 val = phy_read_mmd(phydev, DP83867_DEVADDR,
- DP83867_STRAP_STS2);
- const u16 txskew = (val & DP83867_STRAP_STS2_CLK_SKEW_TX_MASK) >>
- DP83867_STRAP_STS2_CLK_SKEW_TX_SHIFT;
- const u16 rxskew = (val & DP83867_STRAP_STS2_CLK_SKEW_RX_MASK) >>
- DP83867_STRAP_STS2_CLK_SKEW_RX_SHIFT;
-
- if (txskew != DP83867_STRAP_STS2_CLK_SKEW_NONE ||
- rxskew != DP83867_STRAP_STS2_CLK_SKEW_NONE)
- phydev_warn(phydev,
- "PHY has delays via pin strapping, but phy-mode = 'rgmii'\n"
- "Should be 'rgmii-id' to use internal delays txskew:%x rxskew:%x\n",
- txskew, rxskew);
- }
-
/* RX delay *must* be specified if internal delay of RX is used. */
if ((phydev->interface == PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_ID ||
phydev->interface == PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_RXID) &&
@@ -836,13 +812,7 @@ static int dp83867_config_init(struct phy_device *phydev)
if (ret)
return ret;

- /* If rgmii mode with no internal delay is selected, we do NOT use
- * aligned mode as one might expect. Instead we use the PHY's default
- * based on pin strapping. And the "mode 0" default is to *use*
- * internal delay with a value of 7 (2.00 ns).
- *
- * Set up RGMII delays
- */
+ /* Set up RGMII delays */
val = phy_read_mmd(phydev, DP83867_DEVADDR, DP83867_RGMIICTL);

val &= ~(DP83867_RGMII_TX_CLK_DELAY_EN | DP83867_RGMII_RX_CLK_DELAY_EN);
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