netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3] net: phy: broadcom: add 1000Base-X support for BCM54616S

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Date:   Sun, 4 Aug 2019 16:51:52 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Tao Ren <taoren@...com>
Cc:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Arun Parameswaran <arun.parameswaran@...adcom.com>,
        Justin Chen <justinpopo6@...il.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org" <openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] net: phy: broadcom: add 1000Base-X support
 for BCM54616S

> > The patchset looks better now. But is it ok, I wonder, to keep
> > PHY_BCM_FLAGS_MODE_1000BX in phydev->dev_flags, considering that
> > phy_attach_direct is overwriting it?
> 

> I checked ftgmac100 driver (used on my machine) and it calls
> phy_connect_direct which passes phydev->dev_flags when calling
> phy_attach_direct: that explains why the flag is not cleared in my
> case.

Yes, that is the way it is intended to be used. The MAC driver can
pass flags to the PHY. It is a fragile API, since the MAC needs to
know what PHY is being used, since the flags are driver specific.

One option would be to modify the assignment in phy_attach_direct() to
OR in the flags passed to it with flags which are already in
phydev->dev_flags.

	Andrew