netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Workaround missing PHY ID on mv88e6390

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Date:   Wed, 25 Jan 2017 19:00:14 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Cc:     Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Workaround missing PHY
 ID on mv88e6390

> Since several chips have this issue, we can introduce a u16 physid2_mask
> member in the mv88e6xxx_info structure and move the check in
> mv88e6xxx_phy_read() so that the logic of device (as in Global2) helpers
> are not affected by such (necessary) hack. Something like:
> 
>     static int mv88e6xxx_phy_read(struct mv88e6xxx_chip *chip, int phy,
>                                   int reg, u16 *val)
>     {
>         ...
> 
>         err = chip->info->ops->phy_read(chip, bus, addr, reg, val);
>         if (err)
>             return err;
> 
>         if (reg == MII_PHYSID2 && chip->info->physid2_mask) {
>             /* Some internal PHYs don't have a model number,
>              * so return the switch family model number directly.
>              */
>             if (!(*val & chip->info->physid2_mask))

Hi Vivien

I don't see the need to have per switch masks. Lets just hard code it
to ignore the lower 4 bits.

>                 *val |= chip->info->prod_num;

and this is not good. I deliberately picked the family num, not the
product num. Otherwise for the 6390 family, we have 6 different PHY
IDs. And two more for Gregorys two switches.

     Andrew