Re: [PATCH net-next v5 4/5] net: sfp: create/destroy I2C mdiobus before PHY probe/after PHY release

["Marek Behún" <marek.behun@nic.cz>]

On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 10:38:32 +0100
Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 14 January 2021 16:07:19 Russell King - ARM Linux admin
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 05:43:30AM +0100, Marek Behún wrote:  
> > > Instead of configuring the I2C mdiobus when SFP driver is probed,
> > > create/destroy the mdiobus before the PHY is probed for/after it
> > > is released.
> > > 
> > > This way we can tell the mdio-i2c code which protocol to use for
> > > each SFP transceiver.  
> > 
> > I've been thinking a bit more about this. It looks like it will
> > allocate and free the MDIO bus each time any module is inserted or
> > removed, even a fiber module that wouldn't ever have a PHY. This
> > adds unnecessary noise to the kernel message log.
> > 
> > We only probe for a PHY if one of:
> > 
> > - id.base.extended_cc is SFF8024_ECC_10GBASE_T_SFI,
> >   SFF8024_ECC_10GBASE_T_SR, SFF8024_ECC_5GBASE_T, or
> >   SFF8024_ECC_2_5GBASE_T.
> > - id.base.e1000_base_t is set.
> > 
> > So, we only need the MDIO bus to be registered if one of those is
> > true.
> > 
> > As you are introducing "enum mdio_i2c_proto", I'm wondering whether
> > that should include "MDIO_I2C_NONE", and we should only register the
> > bus and probe for a PHY if it is not MDIO_I2C_NONE.
> > 
> > Maybe we should have:
> > 
> > enum mdio_i2c_proto {
> > 	MDIO_I2C_NONE,
> > 	MDIO_I2C_MARVELL_C22,
> > 	MDIO_I2C_C45,
> > 	MDIO_I2C_ROLLBALL,
> > 	...
> > };
> > 
> > with:
> > 
> > 	sfp->mdio_protocol = MDIO_I2C_NONE;
> > 	if (((!memcmp(id.base.vendor_name, "OEM             ", 16)
> > || !memcmp(id.base.vendor_name, "Turris          ", 16)) &&
> > 	     (!memcmp(id.base.vendor_pn, "SFP-10G-T       ", 16) ||
> > 	      !memcmp(id.base.vendor_pn, "RTSFP-10", 8)))) {
> > 		sfp->mdio_protocol = MDIO_I2C_ROLLBALL;
> > 		sfp->module_t_wait = T_WAIT_ROLLBALL;
> > 	} else {
> > 		switch (id.base.extended_cc) {
> > 		...
> > 		}
> > 	}
> > 
> > static int sfp_sm_add_mdio_bus(struct sfp *sfp)
> > {
> > 	int err = 0;
> > 
> > 	if (sfp->mdio_protocol != MDIO_I2C_NONE)
> > 		err = sfp_i2c_mdiobus_create(sfp);
> > 
> > 	return err;
> > }
> > 
> > called from the place you call sfp_i2c_mdiobus_create(), and
> > sfp_sm_probe_for_phy() becomes:
> > 
> > static int sfp_sm_probe_for_phy(struct sfp *sfp)
> > {
> > 	int err = 0;
> > 
> > 	switch (sfp->mdio_protocol) {
> > 	case MDIO_I2C_NONE:
> > 		break;
> > 
> > 	case MDIO_I2C_MARVELL_C22:
> > 		err = sfp_sm_probe_phy(sfp, SFP_PHY_ADDR, false);
> > 		break;
> > 
> > 	case MDIO_I2C_C45:
> > 		err = sfp_sm_probe_phy(sfp, SFP_PHY_ADDR, true);
> > 		break;
> > 
> > 	case MDIO_I2C_ROLLBALL:
> > 		err = sfp_sm_probe_phy(sfp, SFP_PHY_ADDR_ROLLBALL,
> > true); break;
> > 	}
> > 
> > 	return err;
> > }
> > 
> > This avoids having to add the PHY address, as well as fudge around
> > with id.base.extended_cc to get the PHY probed.
> > 
> > Thoughts?  
> 
> Hello Russell! For me this solution looks more cleaner. As all those
> MDIO access protocols are vendor dependent, kernel code should not
> detect them only from the standard (non-vendor) extended_cc property.

I shall respin this series with this modified, then.

Marek