netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 06/16] net: pcs: xpcs: Avoid creating dummy XPCS MDIO device

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Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 14:52:24 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>
Cc: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 06/16] net: pcs: xpcs: Avoid creating dummy XPCS
 MDIO device

On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 02:31:41PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 10:49:47AM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 01:35:27PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> > > If the DW XPCS MDIO devices are either left unmasked for being auto-probed
> > > or explicitly registered in the MDIO subsystem by means of the
> > > mdiobus_register_board_info() method there is no point in creating the
> > > dummy MDIO device instance in order to get the DW XPCS handler since the
> > > MDIO core subsystem will create the device during the MDIO bus
> > > registration procedure.
> > 
> 
> > Please reword this overly long sentence.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> > 
> > If they're left unmasked, what prevents them being created as PHY
> > devices?
> 
> Not sure I fully get what you meant. If they are left unmasked the
> MDIO-device descriptor will be created by the MDIO subsystem anyway.
> What the point in creating another one?

Saying what Russell said, in a different way:

/*
 * Return true if the child node is for a phy. It must either:
 * o Compatible string of "ethernet-phy-idX.X"
 * o Compatible string of "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c45"
 * o Compatible string of "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22"
 * o In the white list above (and issue a warning)
 * o No compatibility string
 *
 * A device which is not a phy is expected to have a compatible string
 * indicating what sort of device it is.
 */
bool of_mdiobus_child_is_phy(struct device_node *child)

So when walking the bus, if a node is found which fits these criteria,
its assumed to be a PHY. 

Anything on the MDIO bus which is not a PHY needs to use a compatible.

	 Andrew