Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] net: mdio: Introduce a regmap-based mdio driver

From: Simon Horman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 13:02:39 +0200

On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 12:11:23PM +0200, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> There exists several examples today of devices that embed an ethernet
> PHY or PCS directly inside an SoC. In this situation, either the device
> is controlled through a vendor-specific register set, or sometimes
> exposes the standard 802.3 registers that are typically accessed over
> MDIO.
> 
> As phylib and phylink are designed to use mdiodevices, this driver
> allows creating a virtual MDIO bus, that translates mdiodev register
> accesses to regmap accesses.
> 
> The reason we use regmap is because there are at least 3 such devices
> known today, 2 of them are Altera TSE PCS's, memory-mapped, exposed
> with a 4-byte stride in stmmac's dwmac-socfpga variant, and a 2-byte
> stride in altera-tse. The other one (nxp,sja1110-base-tx-mdio) is
> exposed over SPI.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <[email-masked]>

...

> +struct mii_bus *devm_mdio_regmap_register(struct device *dev,
> +					  const struct mdio_regmap_config *config)
> +{
> +	struct mdio_regmap_config *mrc;
> +	struct mii_bus *mii;
> +	int rc;
> +
> +	if (!config->parent)
> +		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> +
> +	mii = devm_mdiobus_alloc_size(config->parent, sizeof(*mrc));
> +	if (!mii)
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> +
> +	mrc = mii->priv;
> +	memcpy(mrc, config, sizeof(*mrc));
> +
> +	mrc->regmap = config->regmap;
> +	mrc->valid_addr = config->valid_addr;
> +
> +	mii->name = DRV_NAME;
> +	strscpy(mii->id, config->name, MII_BUS_ID_SIZE);
> +	mii->parent = config->parent;
> +	mii->read = mdio_regmap_read_c22;
> +	mii->write = mdio_regmap_write_c22;
> +
> +	if (config->autoscan)
> +		mii->phy_mask = ~BIT(config->valid_addr);
> +	else
> +		mii->phy_mask = ~0UL;

Hi Maxime,

phy_mask is a u32.
But 0UL may be either 32 or 64 bits wide.

I think a better approach would be to use U32_MAX.

> +
> +	rc = devm_mdiobus_register(dev, mii);
> +	if (rc) {
> +		dev_err(config->parent, "Cannot register MDIO bus![%s] (%d)\n", mii->id, rc);
> +		return ERR_PTR(rc);
> +	}
> +
> +	return mii;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_mdio_regmap_register);
> +
> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MDIO API over regmap");
> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Maxime Chevallier <[email-masked]>");
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");