Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: dsa: microchip: fix writes to phy registers >= 0x10

Rasmus Villemoes
2023-06-21T11:37:32Z

On 20/06/2023 21.28, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 01:38:54PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
>> According to the errata sheets for ksz9477 and ksz9567, writes to the
>> PHY registers 0x10-0x1f (i.e. those located at addresses 0xN120 to
>> 0xN13f) must be done as a 32 bit write to the 4-byte aligned address
>> containing the register, hence requires a RMW in order not to change
>> the adjacent PHY register.
>
> ASIC engineers do see to come up with novel ways to break things.
>
> I assume you have not seen real problems with this, which is why it is
> not for net and a Fixes: tag?

Well, not real problems yet, no. The back story is that I want/need to
implement support for "single LED mode" on the ksz9567, because our
board has two separate simple LEDs for link/activity, and not some
multi-color LED that can indicate speed/link/activity. So that means
writing a 1 to bit 4 of MMD reg 2/0, but due to an errata, _also_
writing a 1 to bit 9 of phy register 0x1e, and when one wants to do
that, this errata applies.

Rasmus