Re: [PATCH] powerpc/kmcent2: update the ethernet devices' phy properties

[Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>]

On Thu, 2019-08-08 at 23:09 +0200, Valentin Longchamp wrote:
> Le mar. 30 juil. 2019 à 11:44, Madalin-cristian Bucur
> <madalin.bucur@nxp.com> a écrit :
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > 
> > > > Le dim. 14 juil. 2019 à 22:05, Valentin Longchamp
> > > > <valentin@longchamp.me> a écrit :
> > > > > 
> > > > > Change all phy-connection-type properties to phy-mode that are
> > > > > better
> > > > > supported by the fman driver.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Use the more readable fixed-link node for the 2 sgmii links.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Change the RGMII link to rgmii-id as the clock delays are added by
> > > > > the
> > > > > phy.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Valentin Longchamp <valentin@longchamp.me>
> > > 
> > > I don't see any other uses of phy-mode in arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl, and
> > > I see
> > > lots of phy-connection-type with fman.  Madalin, does this patch look
> > > OK?
> > > 
> > > -Scott
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > we are using "phy-connection-type" not "phy-mode" for the NXP (former
> > Freescale)
> > DPAA platforms. While the two seem to be interchangeable ("phy-mode" seems
> > to be
> > more recent, looking at the device tree bindings), the driver code in
> > Linux seems
> > to use one or the other, not both so one should stick with the variant the
> > driver
> > is using. To make things more complex, there may be dependencies in
> > bootloaders,
> > I see code in u-boot using only "phy-connection-type" or only "phy-mode".
> > 
> > I'd leave "phy-connection-type" as is.
> 
> So I have finally had time to have a look and now I understand what
> happens. You are right, there are bootloader dependencies: u-boot
> calls fdt_fixup_phy_connection() that somehow in our case adds (or
> changes if already in the device tree) the phy-connection-type
> property to a wrong value ! By having a phy-mode in the device tree,
> that is not changed by u-boot and by chance picked up by the kernel
> fman driver (of_get_phy_mode() ) over phy-connection-mode, the below
> patch fixes it for us.
> 
> I agree with you, it's not correct to have both phy-connection-type
> and phy-mode. Ideally, u-boot on the board should be reworked so that
> it does not perform the above wrong fixup. However, in an "unfixed"
> .dtb (I have disabled fdt_fixup_phy_connection), the device tree in
> the end only has either phy-connection-type or phy-mode, according to
> what was chosen in the .dts file. And the fman driver works well with
> both (thanks to the call to of_get_phy_mode() ). I would therefore
> argue that even if all other DPAA platforms use phy-connection-type,
> phy-mode is valid as well. (Furthermore we already have hundreds of
> such boards in the field and we don't really support "remote" u-boot
> update, so the u-boot fix is going to be difficult for us to pull).
> 
> Valentin

Madalin, are you OK with the patch given this explanation?

-Scott