linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH net-next 6/8] net: phy: initialize phydev->master_slave_set to MASTER_SLAVE_CFG

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Message-Id: <20230817150644.3605105-7-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Date:   Thu, 17 Aug 2023 18:06:42 +0300
From:   Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-phy@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     "Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@....com>,
        Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>,
        Camelia Groza <camelia.groza@....com>,
        Li Yang <leoyang.li@....com>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>,
        Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@...o.com>,
        Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
        Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>,
        Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...nel.org>
Subject: [RFC PATCH net-next 6/8] net: phy: initialize phydev->master_slave_set to MASTER_SLAVE_CFG_UNKNOWN

It doesn't really make sense for phydev->master_slave_set (the user
requested AN master/slave configuration) to take the value
MASTER_SLAVE_CFG_UNSUPPORTED. That only exists, AFAICS, to detect
implementations which don't report phydev->master_slave_get and
phydev->master_slave_state.

Permit the most trivial of drivers to exist, that where .config_aneg()
accepts any user request, and is implemented as:

	/* We support anything */
	phydev->master_slave_get = phydev->master_slave_set;

This is currently rejected by ethnl_update_linkmodes() with the message
"master/slave configuration not supported by device", precisely because
lsettings->master_slave_cfg (which came from phydev->master_slave_get
through phy_ethtool_ksettings_get()) is MASTER_SLAVE_CFG_UNSUPPORTED
(coming from phydev->master_slave_get, see implementation above).

By making phydev->master_slave_set never hold UNSUPPORTED, we avoid the
above confusion (driver does implement master/slave but still gets
detected as unsupported by core) without special casing in the driver.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
---
 drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index 9cb5aa04b2b5..e374d1a57030 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -3276,6 +3276,7 @@ static int phy_probe(struct device *dev)
 		phydev->is_internal = true;

 	phydev->suspended = true;
+	phydev->master_slave_set = MASTER_SLAVE_CFG_UNKNOWN;

 	/* Deassert the reset signal */
 	phy_device_reset(phydev, 0);
-- 
2.34.1