netdev - Re: [PATCH] [v7] net: emac: emac gigabit ethernet controller driver

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Date:	Wed, 17 Aug 2016 23:19:23 -0500
From:	Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>
To:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Al Stone <al.stone@...aro.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sagar Dharia <sdharia@...eaurora.org>,
	Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@...eaurora.org>,
	Vikram Sethi <vikrams@...eaurora.org>,
	Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org>,
	Gilad Avidov <gavidov@...eaurora.org>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
	Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo@...hat.com>,
	"jcm@...hat.com" <jcm@...hat.com>,
	Andy Gross <agross@...eaurora.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@....de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	"Abdulhamid, Harb" <harba@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v7] net: emac: emac gigabit ethernet controller driver

Florian Fainelli wrote:
> The larger issue is that the emac_sgmii node in the form you posted
> is going to be backed by a platform device in Linux while you want a
> PHY device with a reg property that describes a MDIO address
> (#address-cells = 1, #size-cells = 0).

But how do I get the platform device for the emac_sgmii node?  If I 
create an of_device_id ID for it, like this:

static const struct of_device_id emac_dt_match[] = {
	{
		.compatible = "qcom,fsm9900-emac",
	},
	{}
};

static const struct of_device_id emac_sgmii_dt_match[] = {
	{
		.compatible = "qcom,fsm9900-emac-sgmii",
	},
	{}
};

Then the probe function will be called for qcom,fsm9900-emac-sgmii 
separately from qcom,fsm9900-emac, which just confuses things. So I 
can't create emac_sgmii_dt_match.

I know this is standard DT stuff, and I used to do a lot of work on DT 
so maybe I should know this already.  But it seems to me that I need to 
manually create the platform_device for qcom,fsm9900-emac-sgmii.

> IIRC the amd xgbe driver mainline had a similar design but still
> implemented a PHY device anyway although it may not have been using
> Device Tree. It should still be possible to implement a PHY driver
> that you manually register and bind to its device_node pointer such
> that of_phy_find_device and friends still work. You would do this
> from the emac_sgmii platform device driver and parent devices in a
> way that satisfy the PHY device driver lifecycle as well.
>
> Hope this helps.

It doesn't, sorry.  The emac_sgmii is really just another register block 
for the driver to program.  Creating another PHY driver for it doesn't 
really make sense.  It's not on an MDIO bus.

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