Re: [PATCH v2 00/29] at24: remove at24_platform_data

Arnd Bergmann
2018-10-04T13:58:36Z

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 1:06 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote:
> śr., 3 paź 2018 o 23:04 Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> napisał(a):
> > On 10/3/2018 1:15 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > pt., 31 sie 2018 o 21:46 Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> napisał(a):
> > >>
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:04:57AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > >>> Most boards use the EEPROM to store the MAC address. This series adds
> > >>> support for cell lookups to the nvmem framework, registers relevant
> > >>> cells for all users, adds nvmem support to eth_platform_get_mac_address(),
> > >>> converts davinci_emac driver to using it and replaces at24_platform_data
> > >>> with device properties.
> > >>
> > >> We already have:
> > >>
> > >> of_get_nvmem_mac_address() (which does exactly what you're adding,
> > >> except it's DT specific)
> > >> of_get_mac_address()
> > >> fwnode_get_mac_address()
> > >> device_get_mac_address()
> > >>
> > >> and now you've taught me that this exists too:
> > >>
> > >> eth_platform_get_mac_address()
> > >>
> > >> These mostly don't share code, and with your series, they'll start to
> > >> diverge even more as to what they support. Can you please help rectify
> > >> that, instead of widening the gap?
> > >>
> > >> For instance, you can delete most of eth_platform_get_mac_address() and
> > >> replace it with device_get_mac_address() [1]. And you could add your new
> > >> stuff to fwnode_get_mac_address().
> > >>
> > >> And important part to note here is that you code isn't just useful for
> > >> ethernet -- it could be useful for Wifi devices too. So IMO, sticking it
> > >> only in an "eth" function is the wrong move.
> > >>
> > >> Brian
> > >>
> > >> [1] arch_get_platform_mac_address() is the only part I wouldn't want to
> > >> replicate into a truly generic helper. The following should be a no-op
> > >> refactor, AIUI:
> > >>
> > >
> > > The only user of arch_get_platform_mac_address() is sparc. It returns
> > > an address that seems to be read from some kind of EEPROM. I'm not
> > > familiar with this arch though. I'm wondering if we could somehow
> > > seamlessly remove this call and then convert all users of
> > > eth_platform_get_mac_address() to using device_get_mac_address()?
> > >
> > > David: I couldn't find a place in sparc code where any ethernet device
> > > would be registered, so is there a chance that nobody is using it?
> >
> > SPARC uses a true Open Firmware implementation, so it would register
> > drivers through the CONFIG_OF infrastructure.
> > --
>
> I'm seeing that there are only six callers of
> eth_platform_get_mac_address() (the only function which calls
> arch_get_platform_mac_address()).
>
> Of these six callers four are intel ethernet drivers and two are usb
> ethernet adapter drivers.
>
> Is it even possible that sparc wants to get the mac address for a usb
> adapter from some memory chip? Maybe we *can* safely remove that
> function completely? That would allow us to simplify a lot of code.

The calls are not even that old, and clearly added intentionally for sparc,
see commit ba94272d08a7 ("i40e: use eth_platform_get_mac_address()")
which added the first one.

Before that commit, the driver did the same as a couple of sun
specific ones that access the idprom directly:

drivers/net/ethernet/aeroflex/greth.c:
macaddr[i] = (unsigned int) idprom->id_ethaddr[i];
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/sun3lance.c: dev->dev_addr[i] =
idprom->id_ethaddr[i];
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/sunlance.c: dev->dev_addr[i] =
idprom->id_ethaddr[i];
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c: memcpy(dev->dev_addr,
idprom->id_ethaddr, ETH_ALEN);
drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.c: dev->dev_addr[i]
= idprom->id_ethaddr[i];
drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunbmac.c: dev->dev_addr[i] =
idprom->id_ethaddr[i];
drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sungem.c: addr = idprom->id_ethaddr;
drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunhme.c:
memcpy(dev->dev_addr, idprom->id_ethaddr, ETH_ALEN);
drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunhme.c:
memcpy(dev->dev_addr, idprom->id_ethaddr, ETH_ALEN);
drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunqe.c: memcpy(dev->dev_addr,
idprom->id_ethaddr, ETH_ALEN);

Arnd