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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux•org.uk>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail•com>, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] net: phy: hook up clause 45 autonegotiation restart
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 15:46:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170602134632.GI12261@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170602124339.GO22219@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>

On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 01:43:39PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 10:16:17AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > On 06/01/2017 09:24 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > Checking 802.3-2015, in "22.2.4 Management functions", the first
> > > sentence requires all PHYs that respond to Clause 22 cycles to
> > > implement BMCR and BMSR.  However, my statement about unimplemented
> > > registers returning zero seems to be a C45 thing, not a C22 thing,
> > > according to the C22 PICS and "45.2 MDIO Interface Registers"
> > > 
> > > However, digging a bit further, "22.2.4.2.10 Auto-Negotiation complete"
> > > states that bit 5 shall be zero if aneg has not completed or if aneg is
> > > unimplemented.
> > > 
> > 
> > So how about we are more defensive than that and if we are presented
> > with a C45 PHY driver that does not have an aneg_done() function pointer
> > set we return an error/warning during driver registration?
> 
> We don't mark drivers as being C22 or C45, we rely on them matching
> the IDs and/or the probe function making that decision, so it's a
> tad difficult to make that decision at driver registration time.
> 
> We could reject an attempt to probe a C45 phy with a driver that
> does not provide an aneg_done() pointer.

Just an idea.

We could make phy_read/phy_write look to see if the is_c45 flag is
set. If so, return -EINVAL if the register being accessed does not
have MII_ADDR_C45.

That should catch all these sort of problems.

     Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-02 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-01 10:23 [PATCH 0/5] Add phylib support for MV88X3310 10G phy Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-06-01 10:26 ` [PATCH 1/5] net: phy: add 802.3 clause 45 support to phylib Russell King
2017-06-01 12:28   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-06-01 17:15   ` Florian Fainelli
2017-06-02 12:39     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-06-01 10:26 ` [PATCH 2/5] net: phy: hook up clause 45 autonegotiation restart Russell King
2017-06-01 12:23   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-06-01 12:51     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-06-01 13:05       ` Andrew Lunn
2017-06-01 13:09         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-06-01 13:19           ` Andrew Lunn
2017-06-01 15:47             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-06-01 16:24               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-06-01 17:16                 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-06-02 12:43                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-06-02 13:46                     ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2017-06-02 14:04                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-06-01 10:26 ` [PATCH 3/5] net: phy: split out 10G genphy support Russell King
2017-06-01 12:29   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-06-01 17:17   ` Florian Fainelli
2017-06-01 10:26 ` [PATCH 4/5] net: phy: add XAUI and 10GBASE-KR PHY connection types Russell King
     [not found]   ` <E1dGNJX-00043v-3M-eh5Bv4kxaXIk46pC+1QYvQNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2017-06-01 12:30     ` Andrew Lunn
2017-06-01 16:56   ` Florian Fainelli
     [not found]     ` <fb1a81e0-b5b9-80e4-7852-cc65a574b9e9-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2017-06-01 17:32       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-06-01 10:26 ` [PATCH 5/5] net: phy: add Marvell Alaska X 88X3310 10Gigabit PHY support Russell King
2017-06-01 12:51   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-06-01 13:06     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-06-01 17:28   ` Florian Fainelli
2017-06-01 17:57     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-06-01 16:07 ` [PATCH 0/5] Add phylib support for MV88X3310 10G phy David Miller
     [not found]   ` <20170601.120736.670167741447008364.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2017-06-01 16:54     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
     [not found] ` <20170601102327.GF27796-l+eeeJia6m9URfEZ8mYm6t73F7V6hmMc@public.gmane.org>
2017-06-05 11:22   ` [PATCH v2 0/6] " Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-06-05 11:22     ` [PATCH 1/6] net: phy: add 802.3 clause 45 support to phylib Russell King
2017-06-05 16:25       ` Florian Fainelli
2017-06-05 11:22     ` [PATCH 2/6] net: phy: avoid genphy_aneg_done() for PHYs without clause 22 support Russell King
2017-06-05 11:58       ` Andrew Lunn
2017-06-05 16:29       ` Florian Fainelli
2017-06-05 11:23     ` [PATCH 3/6] net: phy: hook up clause 45 autonegotiation restart Russell King
2017-06-05 11:59       ` Andrew Lunn
2017-06-05 16:30       ` Florian Fainelli
2017-06-05 11:23     ` [PATCH 4/6] net: phy: split out 10G genphy support Russell King
2017-06-05 11:23     ` [PATCH 5/6] net: phy: add XAUI and 10GBASE-KR PHY connection types Russell King
     [not found]       ` <E1dHq6I-0005XE-VR-eh5Bv4kxaXIk46pC+1QYvQNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2017-06-05 12:00         ` Andrew Lunn
2017-06-05 16:24       ` Florian Fainelli
2017-06-05 11:23     ` [PATCH 6/6] net: phy: add Marvell Alaska X 88X3310 10Gigabit PHY support Russell King
2017-06-05 18:20       ` Andrew Lunn
2017-06-05 18:21       ` Florian Fainelli
2017-06-05 18:21       ` Andrew Lunn
2017-06-05 22:10         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
     [not found]     ` <20170605112203.GA10680-l+eeeJia6m9URfEZ8mYm6t73F7V6hmMc@public.gmane.org>
2017-06-05 21:53       ` [PATCH v2 0/6] Add phylib support for MV88X3310 10G phy David Miller

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