linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/7] net: hibmcge: Add debugfs supported in this module

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Message-ID: <d8d8a4d8-b71d-4223-bcb2-933eeb306e42@huawei.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 22:31:06 +0800
From: Jijie Shao <shaojijie@...wei.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/7] net: hibmcge: Add debugfs supported in this
 module


on 2024/10/24 22:21, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 10:06:14PM +0800, Jijie Shao wrote:
>> on 2024/10/24 20:05, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>>>>> +	seq_printf(s, "mdio frequency: %u\n", specs->mdio_frequency);
>>>>> Is this interesting? Are you clocking it greater than 2.5MHz?
>>>> MDIO controller supports 1MHz, 2.5MHz, 12.5MHz, and 25MHz
>>>> Of course, we chose and tested 2.5M in actual work, but this can be modified.
>>> How? What API are you using it allow it to be modified? Why cannot you
>>> get the value using the same API?
>> This frequency cannot be modified dynamically.
>> There are some specification registers that store some initialization configuration parameters
>> written by the BMC, such as the default MAC address and hardware FIFO size and mdio frequency.
>>
>> When the device is in prob, the driver reads the related configuration information and
>> initializes the device based on the configuration.
> Does the BMC have an API to set these values? And show these values?
>
> 	Andrew

Currently, there are no other API except devmem.

But this is not important.
According to the discussion in patch "[PATCH net-next 4/7] net: hibmcge: Add register dump supported in this module",
this debugfs file will be deleted. I will put these informations in register dump by ethtool -d.

Thanks