Re: [RFC net-next] net: phy: introduce phy_reg_field interface

["Radu Nicolae Pirea (OSS)" <radu-nicolae.pirea@oss.nxp.com>]

On Fri, 2023-03-31 at 15:07 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 03:32:59PM +0300, Radu Pirea (OSS) wrote:
> > Some PHYs can be heavily modified between revisions, and the
> > addresses of
> > the registers are changed and the register fields are moved from
> > one
> > register to another.
> > 
> > To integrate more PHYs in the same driver with the same register
> > fields,
> > but these register fields were located in different registers at
> > different offsets, I introduced the phy_reg_fied structure.
> 
> Maybe you are solving the wrong problem. Maybe you should be telling
> the hardware/firmware engineers not to do this!
I agree with this. I am trying to solve the wrong problem.

> 
> How many drivers can actually use this? I don't really want to
> encourage vendors to make such a mess of their hardware, so i'm
> wondering if this should be hidden away in the driver, if there is
> only one driver which needs it. If there are multiple drivers which
> can use this, please do modify at least one other driver to use it,
> hence showing it is generic.
The nxp-c45-tja11xx driver will be the user of this kind of abstraction
layer. I was looking to get a quick review on this, before sending it
integrated into a patch series.

> 
> > +int phy_read_reg_field(struct phy_device *phydev,
> > +                      const struct phy_reg_field *reg_field)
> > +{
> > +       u16 mask;
> > +       int ret;
> > +
> > +       if (reg_field->size == 0) {
> > +               phydev_warn(phydev, "Trying to read a reg field of
> > size 0.");
> > +               return -EINVAL;
> > +       }
> > +
> > +       phy_lock_mdio_bus(phydev);
> > +       if (reg_field->mmd)
> > +               ret = __phy_read_mmd(phydev, reg_field->devad,
> > +                                    reg_field->reg);
> > +       else
> > +               ret = __phy_read(phydev, reg_field->reg);
> > +       phy_unlock_mdio_bus(phydev);
> > +
> 
> Could you please explain the locking. It appears you are trying to
> protect reg_field->mmd? Does that really change? Especially since you
> have _const_ struct phy_reg_field *
I am trying to protect the __phy_read_mmd and __phy_read calls, not the
reg_field->mmd.

Radu P.
> 
>       Andrew