linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: enable support for 88E6361 switch

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Date:   Fri, 19 May 2023 15:30:28 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Alexis Lothoré <alexis.lothore@...tlin.com>
Cc:     Marek Behún <kabel@...nel.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com,
        paul.arola@...us.com, scott.roberts@...us.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: enable support for
 88E6361 switch

> >> Ports 1 and 2 should hopefully be protected by the
> >> invalid_port_mask. It should not even be possible to create those
> >> ports. port 0 is interesting, and possibly currently broken on
> >> 6393. Please take a look at that.
> > 
> > Why would port 0 be broken on 6393x ?
> By "broken", I guess Andrew means that if we feed port 0 to
> mv88e6xxx_phy_is_internal, it will return true, which is wrong since there is no
> internal phy for port 0 on 6393X ?

Yes, that is what i was thinking. But i did not spend the time to look
at the code see if this is actually true. There might be a special
case somewhere in the code.

But in general, we try to avoid special cases, and add device specific
ops.

	Andrew