netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/5] net: phy: add Lynx PCS MDIO module

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Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2020 12:47:38 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
        Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>,
        Alexandru Marginean <alexandru.marginean@....com>,
        "andrew@...n.ch" <andrew@...n.ch>,
        "linux@...linux.org.uk" <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "olteanv@...il.com" <olteanv@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/5] net: phy: add Lynx PCS MDIO module

On 7/27/20 11:48 AM, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/5] net: phy: add Lynx PCS MDIO module
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/24/2020 1:01 AM, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
>>> Add support for the Lynx PCS as a separate module in drivers/net/phy/.
>>> The advantage of this structure is that multiple ethernet or switch
>>> drivers used on NXP hardware (ENETC, Seville, Felix DSA switch etc)
>>> can share the same implementation of PCS configuration and runtime
>>> management.
>>>
>>> The module implements phylink_pcs_ops and exports a phylink_pcs
>>> (incorporated into a lynx_pcs) which can be directly passed to phylink
>>> through phylink_pcs_set.
>>>
>>> The first 3 patches add some missing pieces in phylink and the locked
>>> mdiobus write accessor. Next, the Lynx PCS MDIO module is added as a
>>> standalone module. The majority of the code is extracted from the
>>> Felix DSA driver. The last patch makes the necessary changes in the
>>> Felix and Seville drivers in order to use the new common PCS implementation.
>>>
>>> At the moment, USXGMII (only with in-band AN), SGMII, QSGMII (with and
>>> without in-band AN) and 2500Base-X (only w/o in-band AN) are supported
>>> by the Lynx PCS MDIO module since these were also supported by Felix
>>> and no functional change is intended at this time.
>>>
>>> Changes in v2:
>>>  * got rid of the mdio_lynx_pcs structure and directly exported the
>>> functions without the need of an indirection
>>>  * made the necessary adjustments for this in the Felix DSA driver
>>>  * solved the broken allmodconfig build test by making the module
>>> tristate instead of bool
>>>  * fixed a memory leakage in the Felix driver (the pcs structure was
>>> allocated twice)
>>>
>>> Changes in v3:
>>>  * added support for PHYLINK PCS ops in DSA (patch 5/9)
>>>  * cleanup in Felix PHYLINK operations and migrate to
>>>  phylink_mac_link_up() being the callback of choice for applying MAC
>>> configuration (patches 6-8)
>>>
>>> Changes in v4:
>>>  * use the newly introduced phylink PCS mechanism
>>>  * install the phylink_pcs in the phylink_mac_config DSA ops
>>>  * remove the direct implementations of the PCS ops
>>>  * do no use the SGMII_ prefix when referring to the IF_MORE register
>>>  * add a phylink helper to decode the USXGMII code word
>>>  * remove cleanup patches for Felix (these have been already accepted)
>>>  * Seville (recently introduced) now has PCS support through the same
>>> Lynx PCS module
>>>
>>> Ioana Ciornei (5):
>>>   net: phylink: add helper function to decode USXGMII word
>>>   net: phylink: consider QSGMII interface mode in
>>>     phylink_mii_c22_pcs_get_state
>>>   net: mdiobus: add clause 45 mdiobus write accessor
>>>   net: phy: add Lynx PCS module
>>>   net: dsa: ocelot: use the Lynx PCS helpers in Felix and Seville
>>>
>>>  MAINTAINERS                              |   7 +
>>>  drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/Kconfig           |   1 +
>>>  drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix.c           |  28 +-
>>>  drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix.h           |  20 +-
>>>  drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix_vsc9959.c   | 374 ++---------------------
>>>  drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/seville_vsc9953.c |  21 +-
>>>  drivers/net/phy/Kconfig                  |   6 +
>>>  drivers/net/phy/Makefile                 |   1 +
>>>  drivers/net/phy/pcs-lynx.c               | 314 +++++++++++++++++++
>>
>> I believe Andrew had a plan to create a better organization within
>> drivers/net/phy, while this happens, maybe you can already create
>> drivers/net/phy/pcs/ regardless of the state of Andrew's work?
>>
> 
> I got the impression from Andrew that the plan was to do this at a later stage
> together with the Synopsys XPCS. I could certainly do what you say, I am just
> not very keen to add such things into this patch set. 

Andrew, what directory structure do you have in mind such that Ioana can
already start putting the PCS drivers in the right location?
-- 
Florian