linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next RFC v2 4/6] net: phy: Introduce PHY ports representation

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Message-ID: <20250123102327.GI395043@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:23:27 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next RFC v2 4/6] net: phy: Introduce PHY ports
 representation

On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 06:42:49PM +0100, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> Ethernet provides a wide variety of layer 1 protocols and standards for
> data transmission. The front-facing ports of an interface have their own
> complexity and configurability.
> 
> Introduce a representation of these front-facing ports. The current code
> is minimalistic and only support ports controlled by PHY devices, but
> the plan is to extend that to SFP as well as raw Ethernet MACs that
> don't use PHY devices.
> 
> This minimal port representation allows describing the media and number
> of lanes of a port. From that information, we can derive the linkmodes
> usable on the port, which can be used to limit the capabilities of an
> interface.
> 
> For now, the port lanes and medium is derived from devicetree, defined
> by the PHY driver, or populated with default values (as we assume that
> all PHYs expose at least one port).
> 
> The typical example is 100M ethernet. 100BaseT can work using only 2
> lanes on a Cat 5 cables. However, in the situation where a 10/100/1000
> capable PHY is wired to its RJ45 port through 2 lanes only, we have no
> way of detecting that. The "max-speed" DT property can be used, but a
> more accurate representation can be used :
> 
> mdi {
> 	port-0 {
> 		media = "BaseT";
> 		lanes = <2>;
> 	};
> };
> 
> >From that information, we can derive the max speed reachable on the
> port.
> 
> Another benefit of having that is to avoid vendor-specific DT properties
> (micrel,fiber-mode or ti,fiber-mode).
> 
> This basic representation is meant to be expanded, by the introduction
> of port ops, userspace listing of ports, and support for multi-port
> devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>

...

> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_port.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_port.c

...

> +/**
> + * phy_port_destroy: Free a struct phy_port
> + */
> +void phy_port_destroy(struct phy_port *port)

nit: The Kernel doc for this function should include documentation of
     the port parameter.

     Flagged, along with several other Kernel doc issues,
     by ./scripts/kernel-doc -none

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