Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] net: mdio: add ipq8064 mdio driver

From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 20:19:16 +0000

On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 12:47:40AM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> > +static int
> > +ipq8064_mdio_read(struct mii_bus *bus, int phy_addr, int reg_offset)
> > +{
> > +	struct ipq8064_mdio *priv = bus->priv;
> > +	u32 miiaddr = MII_BUSY | MII_CLKRANGE_250_300M;
> > +	u32 ret_val;
> > +	int err;
> > +
> > +	/* Reject clause 45 */
> > +	if (reg_offset & MII_ADDR_C45)
> > +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> Heh, C45 on IPQ806X? Ok, anyone know the hardware or is this some fancy
> forward-thinking future-proofing?

Quite simply, the driver as written does not support C45, so it should
reject it, rather than truncating the "reg_offset" and issuing C22
cycles instead.

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