netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: ibm: emac: support RGMII-[RX|TX]ID phymode

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Date:   Wed, 20 Dec 2017 15:10:46 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     chunkeey@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch,
        christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: ibm: emac: support RGMII-[RX|TX]ID phymode

From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 17:02:01 +0100

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/emac.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/emac.h
> index 5afcc27ceebb..8c6d2af7281b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/emac.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/emac.h
> @@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ struct emac_regs {
>  #define PHY_MODE_RMII	PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RMII
>  #define PHY_MODE_SMII	PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_SMII
>  #define PHY_MODE_RGMII	PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII
> +#define PHY_MODE_RGMII_ID	PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_ID
> +#define PHY_MODE_RGMII_RXID	PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_RXID
> +#define PHY_MODE_RGMII_TXID	PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_TXID
>  #define PHY_MODE_TBI	PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_TBI
>  #define PHY_MODE_GMII	PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_GMII
>  #define PHY_MODE_RTBI	PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RTBI

Why does this driver do all of this CPP macro aliasing?

It's really cruddy because anyone who now reads this code:

>  static inline int rgmii_valid_mode(int phy_mode)
>  {
> -	return  phy_mode == PHY_MODE_GMII ||
> +	return  phy_interface_mode_is_rgmii(phy_mode) ||
> +		phy_mode == PHY_MODE_GMII ||
>  		phy_mode == PHY_MODE_MII ||
> -		phy_mode == PHY_MODE_RGMII ||
>  		phy_mode == PHY_MODE_TBI ||
>  		phy_mode == PHY_MODE_RTBI;
>  }

will read this and say "Oh the function tests against these weird
PHY_MODE_* aliases, but the helper function phy_interface_mode_is_rgmii()
tests against PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_*, what is going on?"

I hate to do this to you, but please get rid of these confusing and
completely unnecessary PHY_MODE_* CPP aliases first, and just use the
proper PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_* values consistently.

Thank you.