linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: remove OF-based MDIO bus registration from DSA core

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Message-ID: <20240129145632.d2mu6vbwcqhjpyty@skbuf>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 16:56:32 +0200
From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To: Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@...il.com>
Cc: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	mithat.guner@...ont.com, erkin.bozoglu@...ont.com,
	Alvin Šipraga <ALSI@...g-olufsen.dk>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: remove OF-based MDIO bus registration
 from DSA core

On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 11:23:33PM -0300, Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca wrote:
> > > IIUC, Luiz made the original patch for the realtek switches. Shouldn't
> > > we wait until realtek registers ds->user_mii_bus on its own, before
> > > reverting? Otherwise, you're basically saying that Luiz made the DSA
> > > core patch without needing it.
> >
> > My findings point to that. Luiz made the patch to optionally register the
> > MDIO bus of the MDIO controlled Realtek switches OF-based. So it's not
> > necessary to wait.
> 
> Back in the time when I wrote that code, with the phy_read/write in
> dsa_switch_ops, the OF node was only required to associate IRQ to each
> port. Until my patch to register its own mdiobus driver lands (I hope
> that happens before the next version), the port status will fall back
> to polling. I don't think it is a critical feature but I'll let the
> maintainers decide. ACK for me.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Luiz

It isn't really great that this loses IRQ support for Realtek internal PHYs,
especially since Arınç's commit message did not estimate this would happen.

I don't see why this patch could not wait until you resubmit the realtek
consolidation set and it gets accepted.