Subject: Re: [net-next RFC PATCH 1/6] net: phy: add support for defining multiple PHY IDs in PHY driver

From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2024 19:33:06 +0000

On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 08:00:27PM +0100, Christian Marangi wrote:
> Some PHY driver might implement the same OPs for different PHY ID and
> using a mask is not enough to match similar PHYs.
> 
> To reduce code duplication, add support for defining multiple PHY IDs in
> PHY driver struct.
> 
> Introduce a new variable in phy_driver struct, .ids, where a table array of
> mdio_device_id can be defined to reference multiple PHY IDs (with their
> own masks) supporting the same group of OPs and flags.
> 
> Introduce a new variable in phy_device, .dev_id, where the matching
> mdio_device_id is stored. PHYs supporting multiple PHYs for one PHY
> driver struct, should use this instead of matching for phy_id.
> 
> Single PHY ID implementation is still supported and dev_id is filled
> with the data from phy_driver in this case.

This looks like it's been reworked somewhat with my suggestion, or maybe
we just came across a similar structure for comparing the IDs?

> +	phy_dev_id = (struct mdio_device_id *)&phydev->dev_id;

Why this cast? Try to write code that doesn't need casts.

> +	/* Fill the mdio_device_id for the PHY istance.
> +	 * If PHY driver provide an array of PHYs, search the right one,
> +	 * in the other case fill it with the phy_driver data.
> +	 */
> +	if (phy_driver_match(phydrv, phydev, &dev_id) && dev_id) {
> +		memcpy(phy_dev_id, dev_id, sizeof(*dev_id));
> +	} else {
> +		phy_dev_id->phy_id = phydrv->phy_id;
> +		phy_dev_id->phy_id_mask = phydrv->phy_id_mask;

So this is the _driver_ phy_id.

>  static inline bool phydev_id_compare(struct phy_device *phydev, u32 id)
>  {
> -	return phy_id_compare(id, phydev->phy_id, phydev->drv->phy_id_mask);
> +	return phy_id_compare(id, phydev->dev_id.phy_id,
> +			      phydev->dev_id.phy_id_mask);

And thus this code is now different (since it _was_ comparing the
phydev phy_id, and you've changed it to effectively the driver's
phy_id. While that should be the same for a matched driver, that
is still a change that probably is't intentional.

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