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From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux•org.uk>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail•com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail•com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 13/14] net: phy: add Broadcom BCM84881 PHY driver
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:58:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191210175837.GY25745@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <557220a9-bdf4-868a-d9cd-a382ae80d288@gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 09:34:16AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 12/9/19 7:19 AM, Russell King wrote:
> > Add a rudimentary Clause 45 driver for the BCM84881 PHY, found on
> > Methode DM7052 SFPs.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux•org.uk>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail•com>
> 
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/phy/Kconfig    |   6 +
> >  drivers/net/phy/Makefile   |   1 +
> >  drivers/net/phy/bcm84881.c | 269 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 276 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/net/phy/bcm84881.c
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig b/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig
> > index fe602648b99f..41272106dea9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig
> > @@ -329,6 +329,12 @@ config BROADCOM_PHY
> >  	  Currently supports the BCM5411, BCM5421, BCM5461, BCM54616S, BCM5464,
> >  	  BCM5481, BCM54810 and BCM5482 PHYs.
> >  
> > +config BCM84881_PHY
> > +	bool "Broadcom BCM84881 PHY"
> > +	depends on PHYLIB=y
> > +	---help---
> > +	  Support the Broadcom BCM84881 PHY.
> 
> Cannot we make this tristate, I believe we cannot until there are more
> fundamental issues (that you just reported) to be fixed, correct?

Indeed.  The problem I saw was that although the bcm84881 has the
PHY correctly described, for whatever reason, the module was not
loaded.

What I think is going in is that with modern udev userspace,
request_module() is not functional, and we do not publish the
module IDs for Clause 45 PHYs via uevent.  Consequently, there
exists no mechanism to load a Clause 45 PHY driver from the
filesystem.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-10 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-09 15:15 [PATCH net-next v2 00/14] Add support for SFP+ copper modules Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-12-09 15:18 ` [PATCH net-next v2 01/14] net: sfp: remove incomplete 100BASE-FX and 100BASE-LX support Russell King
2019-12-10 16:52   ` Andrew Lunn
2019-12-09 15:18 ` [PATCH net-next v2 02/14] net: sfp: derive interface mode from ethtool link modes Russell King
2019-12-10 16:53   ` Andrew Lunn
2019-12-09 15:18 ` [PATCH net-next v2 03/14] net: sfp: add more extended compliance codes Russell King
2019-12-10 16:57   ` Andrew Lunn
2019-12-10 17:21     ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-12-09 15:18 ` [PATCH net-next v2 04/14] net: sfp: add module start/stop upstream notifications Russell King
2019-12-10 16:59   ` Andrew Lunn
2019-12-09 15:18 ` [PATCH net-next v2 05/14] net: sfp: move phy_start()/phy_stop() to phylink Russell King
2019-12-10 17:00   ` Andrew Lunn
2019-12-09 15:18 ` [PATCH net-next v2 06/14] net: mdio-i2c: add support for Clause 45 accesses Russell King
2019-12-10 17:05   ` Andrew Lunn
2019-12-09 15:19 ` [PATCH net-next v2 07/14] net: phylink: re-split __phylink_connect_phy() Russell King
2019-12-10 17:06   ` Andrew Lunn
2019-12-09 15:19 ` [PATCH net-next v2 08/14] net: phylink: support Clause 45 PHYs on SFP+ modules Russell King
2019-12-10 17:07   ` Andrew Lunn
2019-12-09 15:19 ` [PATCH net-next v2 09/14] net: phylink: split link_an_mode configured and current settings Russell King
2019-12-10 17:09   ` Andrew Lunn
2019-12-09 15:19 ` [PATCH net-next v2 10/14] net: phylink: split phylink_sfp_module_insert() Russell King
2019-12-10 17:10   ` Andrew Lunn
2019-12-09 15:19 ` [PATCH net-next v2 11/14] net: phylink: delay MAC configuration for copper SFP modules Russell King
2019-12-10 17:14   ` Andrew Lunn
2019-12-09 15:19 ` [PATCH net-next v2 12/14] net: phylink: make Broadcom BCM84881 based SFPs work Russell King
2019-12-10 17:32   ` Florian Fainelli
2019-12-09 15:19 ` [PATCH net-next v2 13/14] net: phy: add Broadcom BCM84881 PHY driver Russell King
2019-12-10 17:34   ` Florian Fainelli
2019-12-10 17:58     ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin [this message]
2019-12-10 18:46       ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-12-19  0:55         ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-12-19  0:57           ` Florian Fainelli
2019-12-09 15:19 ` [PATCH net-next v2 14/14] net: sfp: add support for Clause 45 PHYs Russell King
2019-12-10 17:21   ` Andrew Lunn
2019-12-11  1:23 ` [PATCH net-next v2 00/14] Add support for SFP+ copper modules David Miller

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