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Date:   Wed, 24 Jul 2019 16:03:24 +0000
From:   Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
CC:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, Leo Li <leoyang.li@....com>,
        Alexandru Marginean <alexandru.marginean@....com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next v1 1/4] enetc: Clean up local mdio bus allocation



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 6:18 PM
>To: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>
>Cc: David S . Miller <davem@...emloft.net>; Rob Herring
><robh+dt@...nel.org>; Leo Li <leoyang.li@....com>; Alexandru Marginean
><alexandru.marginean@....com>; netdev@...r.kernel.org;
>devicetree@...r.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org; linux-
>kernel@...r.kernel.org
>Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 1/4] enetc: Clean up local mdio bus allocation
>
>On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 05:41:38PM +0300, Claudiu Manoil wrote:
>> Though it works, this is not how it should have been.
>> What's needed is a pointer to the mdio registers.
>> Store it properly inside bus->priv allocated space.
>> Use devm_* variant to further clean up the init error /
>> remove paths.
>>
>> Fixes following sparse warning:
>>  warning: incorrect type in assignment (different address spaces)
>>     expected void *priv
>>     got struct enetc_mdio_regs [noderef] <asn:2>*[assigned] regs
>>
>> Fixes: ebfcb23d62ab ("enetc: Add ENETC PF level external MDIO support")
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>
>> ---
>> v1 - added this patch
>>
>>  .../net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_mdio.c | 31 +++++++------------
>>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_mdio.c
>b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_mdio.c
>> index 77b9cd10ba2b..1e3cd21c13ee 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_mdio.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_mdio.c
>> @@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ struct enetc_mdio_regs {
>>  	u32	mdio_addr;	/* MDIO address */
>>  };
>>
>> -#define bus_to_enetc_regs(bus)	(struct enetc_mdio_regs __iomem
>*)((bus)->priv)
>> +#define bus_to_enetc_regs(bus)	(*(struct enetc_mdio_regs __iomem
>**) \
>> +				((bus)->priv))
>>
>>  #define ENETC_MDIO_REG_OFFSET	0x1c00
>>  #define ENETC_MDC_DIV		258
>> @@ -146,12 +147,12 @@ static int enetc_mdio_read(struct mii_bus *bus, int
>phy_id, int regnum)
>>  int enetc_mdio_probe(struct enetc_pf *pf)
>>  {
>>  	struct device *dev = &pf->si->pdev->dev;
>> -	struct enetc_mdio_regs __iomem *regs;
>> +	struct enetc_mdio_regs __iomem **regsp;
>>  	struct device_node *np;
>>  	struct mii_bus *bus;
>> -	int ret;
>> +	int err;
>>
>> -	bus = mdiobus_alloc_size(sizeof(regs));
>> +	bus = devm_mdiobus_alloc_size(dev, sizeof(*regsp));
>>  	if (!bus)
>>  		return -ENOMEM;
>>
>> @@ -159,41 +160,33 @@ int enetc_mdio_probe(struct enetc_pf *pf)
>>  	bus->read = enetc_mdio_read;
>>  	bus->write = enetc_mdio_write;
>>  	bus->parent = dev;
>> +	regsp = bus->priv;
>>  	snprintf(bus->id, MII_BUS_ID_SIZE, "%s", dev_name(dev));
>>
>>  	/* store the enetc mdio base address for this bus */
>> -	regs = pf->si->hw.port + ENETC_MDIO_REG_OFFSET;
>> -	bus->priv = regs;
>> +	*regsp = pf->si->hw.port + ENETC_MDIO_REG_OFFSET;
>
>This is all very odd and different to every other driver.
>
>If i get the code write, there are 4 registers, each u32 in size,
>starting at pf->si->hw.port + ENETC_MDIO_REG_OFFSET?
>
>There are macros like enetc_port_wr() and enetc_global_wr(). It think
>it would be much cleaner to add a macro enet_mdio_wr() which takes
>hw, off, val.
>
>#define enet_mdio_wr(hw, off, val) enet_port_wr(hw, off +
>ENETC_MDIO_REG_OFFSET, val)
>
>struct enetc_mdio_priv {
>       struct enetc_hw *hw;
>}
>
>	struct enetc_mdio_priv *mdio_priv;
>
>	bus = devm_mdiobus_alloc_size(dev, sizeof(*mdio_priv));
>
>	mdio_priv = bus->priv;
>	mdio_priv->hw = pf->si->hw;
>
>
>static int enetc_mdio_write(struct mii_bus *bus, int phy_id, int regnum,
>                            u16 value)
>{
>	struct enetc_mdio_priv *mdio_priv = bus->priv;
>...
>	enet_mdio_wr(priv->hw, ENETC_MDIO_CFG, mdio_cfg);
>}
>
>All the horrible casts go away, the driver is structured like every
>other driver, sparse is probably happy, etc.
>

This looks more like a matter cosmetic preferences.  I mean, I didn't
notice anything "horrible" in the code so far.  I actually find it more
ugly to define a new structure with only one element inside, like:
struct enetc_mdio_priv {
       struct enetc_hw *hw;
}
What is this technique called? Looks like a second type definition for
another type.
Anyway, if others already did this in the kernel, what can I do?