From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@redhat.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: stmmac: allow sharing MDIO lines
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2023 19:38:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZNKLjuxnR2+V3g1D@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMRc=MegMdB0LZNRRrCfqFGZQWMFdBhd8o+_NBxwLk0xS99M_w@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 08:26:22PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> When I say "device unbind", I don't just mean manual unbinding using
> sysfs. I mean any code path (rmmod, unplugging the USB, etc.) that
> leads to the device being detached from its driver. This is a
> perfectly normal situation and should work correctly.
>
> I won't be fixing it for this series but may end up looking into
> establishing some kind of device links between MACs and their "remote"
> PHYs that would allow to safely unbind them.
I don't think you're the first to suggest that!
That gets difficult - because although the PHY may be a different
driver, the MDIO bus may be provided by the _same_ hardware as the
ethernet MAC itself. So you end up with a circular dependency - the
PHY device depends on the MDIO bus device (which is the ethernet MAC)
and then you make the ethernet MAC depend on the PHY device.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-08 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-07 19:31 [PATCH 0/2] net: stmmac: allow sharing MDIO lines Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-08-07 19:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: net: snps,dwmac: document the snps,shared-mdio property Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-08-07 19:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] net: stmmac: support shared MDIO Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-08-07 19:50 ` [PATCH 0/2] net: stmmac: allow sharing MDIO lines Andrew Lunn
2023-08-08 8:13 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-08-08 13:09 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-08-08 13:26 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2023-08-08 14:09 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-08-08 14:25 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-08-08 14:30 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-08-08 14:44 ` Andrew Halaney
2023-08-08 15:10 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2023-08-08 15:15 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-08-08 15:27 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2023-08-08 18:26 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-08-08 18:38 ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
2023-08-08 14:30 ` Russell King (Oracle)
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