netdev - [PATCH RFC 0/7] phylib MMD accessor cleanups

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Message-ID: <20170319105943.GR21222@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Sun, 19 Mar 2017 10:59:44 +0000
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        Microchip Linux Driver Support <UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@...rochip.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 0/7] phylib MMD accessor cleanups

Hi,

This series cleans up the phylib MMD accessors.  We have two accessors
at present, phy_(read|write)_mmd() and phy_(read|write)_mmd_indirect()

The _indirect methods access the MMD registers via a clause 22 phy,
whereas the non-_indirect methods acess via clause 45 accesses.

Current PHY-independent parts of phylib (such as EEE) access the MMD
registers via the _indirect methods, which is no good if you have a
clause 45 PHY that doesn't respond to clause 22 accesses.

In order to make these features available, we need to rework these
accessors such that they can access the MMD registers using a method
dependent on the clause that the PHY conforms with.

This series of patches does exactly that - we merge the functionality
of the indirect accesses into the clause 45 accessors, and use these
exclusively to access MMD registers.  Internally, the new clause
independent MMD accessors indirect via the PHY drivers read_mmd/write_mmd
methods if present, otherwise fall back to using clause 45 accesses if
the PHY is a clause 45 phy, or clause 22 indirect accesses if the PHY
is clause 22.

Note: confusingly, phy_read_mmd_indirect() vs phy_read_mmd() switches
the order of prtad and devad, which means that converting between the
two is not a simple matter of just replacing the function name.  Same
applies for the write methods.

 drivers/net/phy/Makefile      |   2 +-
 drivers/net/phy/bcm-phy-lib.c |  12 ++---
 drivers/net/phy/dp83867.c     |  25 +++++-----
 drivers/net/phy/intel-xway.c  |  26 +++++-----
 drivers/net/phy/micrel.c      |  13 +++--
 drivers/net/phy/microchip.c   |   5 +-
 drivers/net/phy/phy-core.c    | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/phy/phy.c         | 110 ++++--------------------------------------
 drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c  |   4 +-
 drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c     |  10 ++--
 include/linux/phy.h           |  80 +++++++++---------------------
 11 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 210 deletions(-)

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