Re: [PATCH net-next v23 2/9] dt-bindings: net: Document support for AN8855 Switch Internal PHY

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- [Medium] Both PHY nodes in the example of the new binding
  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/airoha,an8855-phy.yaml…
- [Low] In the example of
  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/airoha,an8855-phy.yaml, the PHY…

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dt-bindings: net: Document support for AN8855 Switch Internal PHY

This adds a binding for the internal PHYs of the Airoha AN8855 5-port
Gigabit switch, which are exposed on the MDIO bus. It also documents
optional nvmem-cells, which point at eFUSE cells used to calibrate each
PHY.

> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/airoha,an8855-phy.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/airoha,an8855-phy.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000..d2f86116badf4
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/airoha,an8855-phy.yaml

[ ... ]

> +examples:
> +  - |
> +    mdio {
> +        #address-cells = <1>;
> +        #size-cells = <0>;
> +
> +        ethernet-phy@1 {
> +            compatible = "ethernet-phy-idc0ff.0410",
> +                         "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c45";

[Severity: Medium]
Should this be "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22"? The same pair is used for
ethernet-phy@2 below.

The rest of the series treats these PHYs as Clause 22 only. The MFD
binding in mfd/airoha,an8855.yaml uses "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22" for
the same PHYs. The PHY driver in drivers/net/phy/air_an8855.c relies on
Clause 22 register 0x1f paging and has no Clause 45 callbacks.

When the c45 compatible is present, fwnode_mdiobus_register_phy()
ignores the fixed PHY ID:

drivers/net/mdio/fwnode_mdio.c:fwnode_mdiobus_register_phy() {
    ...
	is_c45 = fwnode_device_is_compatible(child, "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c45");
	if (is_c45 || fwnode_get_phy_id(child, &phy_id))
		phy = get_phy_device(bus, addr, is_c45);
    ...
}

The per-PHY buses that an8855_core_probe() creates come from
devm_mdio_regmap_register(). That function only sets Clause 22
accessors:

drivers/net/mdio/mdio-regmap.c:devm_mdio_regmap_register() {
    ...
	mii->read = mdio_regmap_read_c22;
	mii->write = mdio_regmap_write_c22;
    ...
}

Since read_c45 is never set, this chain fails:

get_phy_device(bus, addr, true)
  get_phy_c45_ids()
    mdiobus_c45_read() -> -EOPNOTSUPP
  -> -EIO

After that, fwnode_mdiobus_register_phy() fails and an8855_core_probe()
jumps to err_put_fwnodes. The whole AN8855 MFD then fails to probe,
including the switch and the efuse.

The schema accepts either compatible, so dt_binding_check won't catch
a board DT that copies this example.

> +
> +            reg = <1>;
> +        };
> +
> +        ethernet-phy@2 {
> +            compatible = "ethernet-phy-idc0ff.0410",
> +                         "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c45";
> +
> +            reg = <2>;
> +
> +            nvmem-cells = <&shift_sel_port0_tx_a>,
> +                          <&shift_sel_port0_tx_b>,
> +                          <&shift_sel_port0_tx_c>,
> +                          <&shift_sel_port0_tx_d>;

[Severity: Low]
Is ethernet-phy@2 meant to get the port 0 calibration cells here?

Later in the series, an8855_phy_bus_register() maps a PHY to a switch
port with phy_offset = addr - priv->switch_addr. This example also has
a PHY at address 1, so ethernet-phy@2 can't be port 0.

The sibling bindings agree:

- dsa/airoha,an8855-switch.yaml maps port@0 to internal_phy1 and port@1
  to internal_phy2.
- mfd/airoha,an8855.yaml puts the shift_sel_port0_* cells on
  ethernet-phy@1 and the shift_sel_port1_* cells on ethernet-phy@2.

an8855_config_init() writes whatever cells it gets into
AN8855_PHY_R50OHM_RSEL_TX_AB/CD. If a board DT copies this example, the
port 1 PHY would silently get the port 0 TX calibration.

Should the cells either move to ethernet-phy@1, or be renamed to
shift_sel_port1_*?

> +            nvmem-cell-names = "tx_a", "tx_b", "tx_c", "tx_d";
> +        };
> +    };

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