Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 09/12] net: dsa: lantiq_gswip: add vendor property to setup MII refclk output

From: Daniel Golle <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 23:48:26 +0000

On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 01:36:26AM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 11:47:21PM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote:
> > Read boolean Device Tree property "maxlinear,rmii-refclk-out" and switch
> > the RMII reference clock to be a clock output rather than an input if it
> > is set.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/dsa/lantiq/lantiq_gswip_common.c | 4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/lantiq/lantiq_gswip_common.c b/drivers/net/dsa/lantiq/lantiq_gswip_common.c
> > index 60a83093cd10..bf38ecc13f76 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/dsa/lantiq/lantiq_gswip_common.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/lantiq/lantiq_gswip_common.c
> > @@ -1442,6 +1442,10 @@ static void gswip_phylink_mac_config(struct phylink_config *config,
> >  		return;
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	if (of_property_read_bool(dp->dn, "maxlinear,rmii-refclk-out") &&
> > +	    !(miicfg & GSWIP_MII_CFG_MODE_RGMII))
> > +		miicfg |= GSWIP_MII_CFG_RMII_CLK;
> > +
> 
> What did you mean with the !(miicfg & GSWIP_MII_CFG_MODE_RGMII) test?
> If the schema says "Only applicable for RMII mode.", what's the purpose
> of this extra condition? For example, GSWIP_MII_CFG_MODE_GMII also has
> the "GSWIP_MII_CFG_MODE_RGMII" bit (0x4) unset. Does this have any significance?

You are right, probably the best would be to test (if at all) that
(miicfg == GSWIP_MII_CFG_MODE_RMIIM || miicfg ==
GSWIP_MII_CFG_MODE_RMIIP) and only in this case allow setting the
GSWIP_MII_CFG_RMII_CLK bit.

I forgot that there is older hardware which supports "full" MII, and MII
MAC as well as MII PHY modes also shouldn't allow to set the
GSWIP_MII_CFG_RMII_CLK bit to not end up with undefined behavior.