netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: power serdes on/off for 10G interfaces on 6390X

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Message-Id: <20190228.151656.907037082987778102.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:16:56 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, hkallweit1@...il.com,
        vivien.didelot@...il.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        antoine.tenart@...tlin.com, thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com,
        gregory.clement@...tlin.com, miquel.raynal@...tlin.com,
        nadavh@...vell.com, stefanc@...vell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: power serdes on/off for 10G
 interfaces on 6390X

From: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 22:14:33 +0100

> Upon setting the cmode on 6390 and 6390X, the associated serdes
> interfaces must be powered off/on.
> 
> Both 6390X and 6390 share code to do so, but it currently uses the 6390
> specific helper mv88e6390_serdes_power() to disable and enable the
> serdes interface.
> 
> This call will fail silently on 6390X when trying so set a 10G interface
> such as XAUI or RXAUI, since mv88e6390_serdes_power() internally grabs
> the lane number based on modes supported by the 6390, and returns 0 when
> getting -ENODEV as a lane number.
> 
> Using mv88e6390x_serdes_power() should be safe here, since we explicitly
> rule-out all ports but the 9 and 10, and because modes supported by 6390
> ports 9 and 10 are a subset of those supported on 6390X.
> 
> This was tested on 6390X using RXAUI mode.
> 
> Fixes: 364e9d7776a3 ("net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Power on/off SERDES on cmode change")
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.