netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: dsa: remove phylink

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Date:   Tue, 1 Nov 2022 12:01:32 +0000
From:   "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@...o.com>,
        Colin Foster <colin.foster@...advantage.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: dsa: remove phylink_validate() method

On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 01:48:06PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> Not all DSA drivers provide config->mac_capabilities, for example
> mv88e6060, lan9303 and vsc73xx don't. However, there have been users of
> those drivers on recent kernels and no one reported that they fail to
> establish a link, so I'm guessing that they work (somehow). But I must
> admit I don't understand why phylink_generic_validate() works when
> mac_capabilities=0. Anyway, these drivers did not provide a
> phylink_validate() method before and do not provide one now, so nothing
> changes for them.

There is a specific exception:

static void dsa_port_phylink_validate(struct phylink_config *config,
                                      unsigned long *supported,
                                      struct phylink_link_state *state)
{
        struct dsa_port *dp = container_of(config, struct dsa_port, pl_config);
        struct dsa_switch *ds = dp->ds;

        if (!ds->ops->phylink_validate) {
                if (config->mac_capabilities)
                        phylink_generic_validate(config, supported, state);
                return;

When config->mac_capabilities is zero, and there is no phylink_validate()
function, dsa_port_phylink_validate() becomes a no-op, and the no-op
case basically means "everything is allowed", which is how things worked
before the generic validation was added, as you will see from commit
5938bce4b6e2 ("net: dsa: support use of phylink_generic_validate()").

Changing this as you propose below will likely break these drivers.

A safer change would be to elimate ds->ops->phylink_validate, leaving
the call to phylink_generic_validate() conditional on mac_capabilities
having been filled in - which will save breaking these older drivers.

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