netdev - Re: [net-next RFC PATCH 6/6] net: phy: bcm7xxx: rework phy_driver table to new multiple PHY ID format

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Message-ID: <a1f90d66-fee3-4c03-a04d-0d6c91ce5256@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:15:14 -0800
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>,
 Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
 Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 Broadcom internal kernel review list
 <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>, Robert Marko <robimarko@...il.com>,
 "Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>,
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 Pieter Jansen van Vuuren <pieter.jansen-van-vuuren@....com>,
 Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@....com>,
 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
 Puneet Gupta <puneet.gupta@....com>,
 Abhijit Gangurde <abhijit.gangurde@....com>,
 Umang Jain <umang.jain@...asonboard.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next RFC PATCH 6/6] net: phy: bcm7xxx: rework phy_driver
 table to new multiple PHY ID format

On 2/19/2024 8:41 AM, Christian Marangi wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 08:26:29PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2/18/2024 11:00 AM, Christian Marangi wrote:
>>> Rework bcm7xxx PHY driver table to new multiple PHY format
>>> implementation to reduce code duplication and final size of the compiled
>>> module.
>>
>> I like the idea of sharing as much code as possible and creating a smaller
>> module, however by changing the name, you are creating an user-space ABI
>> change, we rely upon the exact PHY name being shown under
>> /sys/class/mdio_bus/*/* and this change will break that.
>>
> 
> Thanks for putting this concern on the table but isn't that generated by
> dev_set_name and PHY_ID_FMT? from bus->id and addr?
> 
> Can't find reference of the name entry in sysfs. Am I missing something?
> The name seems to be used only by logging to print info/err/warn.

The name will appear under /sys/ like this:

ls -ls /sys/class/mdio_bus/unimac-mdio-0/unimac-mdio-0\:01/
total 0
      0 lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Jan  4 21:27 
attached_dev -> ../../../../net/eth0
      0 lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Jan  4 21:27 driver 
-> ../../../../../../../../bus/mdio_bus/drivers/Broadcom BCM7712

it might be OK to change the driver, but I can tell you this is going to 
be breaking a number of our scripts here...
-- 
Florian