netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 10/16] net: pcs: xpcs: Add generic DW XPCS MDIO-device support

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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:00:16 +0200
From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
	Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>,
	Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com>,
	Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
	Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@...il.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 10/16] net: pcs: xpcs: Add generic DW XPCS
 MDIO-device support

On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 02:54:00PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> > > > The pcs-rzn1-miic.c driver puts a device_link to the MAC to at least
> > > > tear down the whole thing when the PCS is unbound, which is saner than
> > > > crashing the kernel. I don't see the equivalent protection mechanism here?
> > > 
> > > You are right. I don't have any equivalent protection here. Thanks for
> > > suggesting a solution.
> > 
> > I think that a device link between the "ethernet" device and the "mdio"
> > device (controller, parent of the PHY or PCS), if the Ethernet is not a
> > parent of the MDIO controller, could also solve that. But it would also
> > require ACK from PHY maintainers, who may have grander plans to address
> > this snag.
> 
> Ok. I'll add it in v2. Let's see what the maintainers think about
> that.

Are you not following the parallel discussion on the topic of PCS
devices having bound drivers?
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/ZXnV%2FPk1PYxAm%2FjS@shell.armlinux.org.uk/

Sadly I don't have much spare time to join that discussion, but it looks
like you could.