Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/6] net: dsa: microchip: lan937x: add regmap range validation

From: Florian Fainelli <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 10:15:54 -0700

On 11/1/22 21:10, Rakesh Sankaranarayanan wrote:
> Add regmap_range and regmap_access_table to define valid
> register range for LAN937x switch family. LAN937x family
> have sku id's LAN9370, LAN9371, LAN9372, LAN9373 and
> LAN9374. regmap_range structure is arranged as Global
> Registers followed by Port Registers but they are distributed
> as Global Registers, T1 PHY Port Registers, Tx PHY Port Registers,
> RGMII Port Registers, SGMII Port Registers. On 16 bit addressing,
> most significant 4 bits are used for representing port number.
> So valid range of two different T1 PHY ports within a sku
> will differ on upper nibble only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rakesh Sankaranarayanan <[email-masked]>
> ---
>   drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_common.c | 1760 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 1760 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_common.c b/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_common.c
> index d612181b3226..b0905c5b701d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_common.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_common.c
> @@ -1030,6 +1030,1756 @@ static const struct regmap_access_table ksz9896_register_set = {
>   	.n_yes_ranges = ARRAY_SIZE(ksz9896_valid_regs),
>   };
>   
> +static const struct regmap_range lan9370_valid_regs[] = {

Suggest you employ some macros for generating the valid register ranges 
for ports since there is a lot of repetition, and chances are that new 
registers may have to be added in the future, or corrected.

Between the fact that regmap makes you pull an entire subsystem into the 
kernel image thus adding to code sections, plus these big tables of 
register ranges adding to read-only data sections, this really makes me 
wonder what benefit there is just to expose a debugfs interface for 
dumping registers... value proposition does not seem so great to me.
-- 
Florian