linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 net-next] net: stmmac: enable clause 45 mdio support

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Message-ID: <20190704033038.GA6276@lunn.ch>
Date:   Thu, 4 Jul 2019 05:30:38 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     "Voon, Weifeng" <weifeng.voon@...el.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>,
        Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        biao huang <biao.huang@...iatek.com>,
        "Ong, Boon Leong" <boon.leong.ong@...el.com>,
        "Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 net-next] net: stmmac: enable clause 45 mdio support

On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 01:33:16AM +0000, Voon, Weifeng wrote:
> > > @@ -155,22 +171,26 @@ static int stmmac_mdio_read(struct mii_bus *bus,
> > int phyaddr, int phyreg)
> > >  	struct stmmac_priv *priv = netdev_priv(ndev);
> > >  	unsigned int mii_address = priv->hw->mii.addr;
> > >  	unsigned int mii_data = priv->hw->mii.data;
> > > -	u32 v;
> > > -	int data;
> > >  	u32 value = MII_BUSY;
> > > +	int data = 0;
> > > +	u32 v;
> > >
> > >  	value |= (phyaddr << priv->hw->mii.addr_shift)
> > >  		& priv->hw->mii.addr_mask;
> > >  	value |= (phyreg << priv->hw->mii.reg_shift) & priv->hw-
> > >mii.reg_mask;
> > >  	value |= (priv->clk_csr << priv->hw->mii.clk_csr_shift)
> > >  		& priv->hw->mii.clk_csr_mask;
> > > -	if (priv->plat->has_gmac4)
> > > +	if (priv->plat->has_gmac4) {
> > >  		value |= MII_GMAC4_READ;
> > > +		if (phyreg & MII_ADDR_C45)
> > > +			stmmac_mdio_c45_setup(priv, phyreg, &value, &data);
> > > +	}
> > >
> > >  	if (readl_poll_timeout(priv->ioaddr + mii_address, v, !(v &
> > MII_BUSY),
> > >  			       100, 10000))
> > >  		return -EBUSY;
> > >
> > > +	writel(data, priv->ioaddr + mii_data);
> > 
> > That looks odd. Could you explain why it is needed.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 	Andrew
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> This mdio c45 support needed to access DWC xPCS which is a Clause-45

I mean it looks odd doing a write to the data register in the middle
of stmmac_mdio_read().

   Andrew