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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:54:15 +0100
From: Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
To: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@...glemail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
"linux-mips" <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] au1000-eth: convert to platform_driver model
Hi Manuel,
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 10:20:25 Manuel Lauss wrote:
> Hi Florian,
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
wrote:
> > This patch converts the au1000-eth driver to become a full
> > platform-driver as it ought to be. We now pass PHY-speficic
> > configurations through platform_data but for compatibility
> > the driver still assumes the default settings (search for PHY1 on
> > MAC0) when no platform_data is passed. Tested on my MTX-1 board.
[snip]
> >
> > - phydev = tmp_phydev;
> > - break; /* found it */
> > + if (aup->phy1_search_mac0) {
> > + /* try harder to find a PHY */
> > + if (!phydev && (aup->mac_id == 1)) {
> > + /* no PHY found, maybe we have a dual
> > PHY? */ + printk (KERN_INFO DRV_NAME ": no
> > PHY found on MAC1, " + "let's see
> > if it's attached to MAC0...\n"); +
> > + /* find the first (lowest address)
> > non-attached PHY on + * the MAC0 MII bus
> > */
> > + for (phy_addr = 0; phy_addr <
> > PHY_MAX_ADDR; phy_addr++) { + if
> > (aup->mac_id == 1)
> > + break;
>
> aup->mac_id needs to be 1 for this loop to be executed in the first
> place, and here
> you immediately bail out if it is.
>From the reading of the comment, it seems to me like we should not do anything
in this for loop if we were using MAC1, but I may have misunderstood that, as
such I have added this break to "comply" with the comment.
> Also, how do you access the phy map of the other controller without use of
> the au_macs[] structure? (which is unused after this patch and could be
> removed, along
> with the NUM_ETH_INTERFACES constant)
We access the phy map of the other controller by using the correct mii bus
identifier, since we have registered a per-interface mdio bus or have I
overlooked something ?
>
> > + struct phy_device *const
> > tmp_phydev = +
> > aup->mii_bus->phy_map[phy_addr];
>
> My compiler complains about mixed code/declarations.
That declaration was already there and as this patch has no intent to clean
anything right now, I have left it as-is.
--
Florian
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