netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: meson-gxl: use MMD access dummy stubs for GXL, internal PHY

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Message-ID: <CAFXsbZpUdfkxxnH3Ex5BUmvnxJYP-4wQ2Ai7Wrvf-O7KaPF-aw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2023 13:07:03 -0800
From:   Chris Healy <cphealy@...il.com>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
        Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>,
        Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "open list:ARM/Amlogic Meson..." <linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: meson-gxl: use MMD access dummy stubs for
 GXL, internal PHY

Reviewed-by: Chris Healy <healych@...zon.com>

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 1:03 PM Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Jerome provided the information that also the GXL internal PHY doesn't
> support MMD register access and EEE. MMD reads return 0xffff, what
> results in e.g. completely wrong ethtool --show-eee output.
> Therefore use the MMD dummy stubs.
>
> Note: The Fixes tag references the commit that added the MMD dummy
> access stubs.
>
> Fixes: 5df7af85ecd8 ("net: phy: Add general dummy stubs for MMD register access")
> Suggested-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/phy/meson-gxl.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/meson-gxl.c b/drivers/net/phy/meson-gxl.c
> index c49062ad7..fbf5f2416 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/meson-gxl.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/meson-gxl.c
> @@ -261,6 +261,8 @@ static struct phy_driver meson_gxl_phy[] = {
>                 .handle_interrupt = meson_gxl_handle_interrupt,
>                 .suspend        = genphy_suspend,
>                 .resume         = genphy_resume,
> +               .read_mmd       = genphy_read_mmd_unsupported,
> +               .write_mmd      = genphy_write_mmd_unsupported,
>         }, {
>                 PHY_ID_MATCH_EXACT(0x01803301),
>                 .name           = "Meson G12A Internal PHY",
> --
> 2.39.1
>