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Date:	Thu, 03 Sep 2015 12:38:19 -0700
From:	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
To:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org
CC:	Tawfik Bayouk <tawfik@...vell.com>,
	Nadav Haklai <nadavh@...vell.com>,
	Lior Amsalem <alior@...vell.com>,
	Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>,
	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@...e-electrons.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 2/5] net: phy: extend fixed driver with fixed_phy_register()

On 03/09/15 12:37, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> On 09/03/2015 10:20 PM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> 
>>> The existing fixed_phy_add() function has several drawbacks that
>>> prevents it from being used as is for OF-based declaration of fixed
>>> PHYs:
>>>
>>>   * The address of the PHY on the fake bus needs to be passed, while a
>>>     dynamic allocation is desired.
>>>
>>>   * Since the phy_device instantiation is post-poned until the next
>>>     mdiobus scan, there is no way to associate the fixed PHY with its
>>>     OF node, which later prevents of_phy_connect() from finding this
>>>     fixed PHY from a given OF node.
>>>
>>> To solve this, this commit introduces fixed_phy_register(), which will
>>> allocate an available PHY address, add the PHY using fixed_phy_add()
>>> and instantiate the phy_device structure associated with the provided
>>> OF node.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
>>> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
>>> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/net/phy/fixed.c   | 61
>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>   include/linux/phy_fixed.h | 11 +++++++++
>>>   2 files changed, 72 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/fixed.c b/drivers/net/phy/fixed.c
>>> index e41546d..d60d875 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/phy/fixed.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/fixed.c
>> [...]
>>> @@ -203,6 +204,66 @@ err_regs:
>> [...]
>>> +int fixed_phy_register(unsigned int irq,
>>> +               struct fixed_phy_status *status,
>>> +               struct device_node *np)
>>> +{
>>> +    struct fixed_mdio_bus *fmb = &platform_fmb;
>>> +    struct phy_device *phy;
>>> +    int phy_addr;
>>> +    int ret;
>>> +
>>> +    /* Get the next available PHY address, up to PHY_MAX_ADDR */
>>> +    spin_lock(&phy_fixed_addr_lock);
>>> +    if (phy_fixed_addr == PHY_MAX_ADDR) {
>>> +        spin_unlock(&phy_fixed_addr_lock);
>>> +        return -ENOSPC;
>>> +    }
>>> +    phy_addr = phy_fixed_addr++;
>>> +    spin_unlock(&phy_fixed_addr_lock);
>>> +
>>> +    ret = fixed_phy_add(PHY_POLL, phy_addr, status);
>>
>>     Was rummaging in the fixed_phy driver and a bug sprang right at
>> me: 'phy'
> 
>    Sorry, s/phy/irq/ of course. Just noticed. :-/

Ok, that makes sense then, and yes, this "irq" argument should have been
passed down to fixed_phy_add(). Might be worth adding a WARN_ON(irq !=
PHY_POLL) just to catch callers that expect something else.

Thanks!
--
Florian
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