Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v4 01/28] net: mdio: ipq8064: clean whitespaces in define

Jonathan McDowell
2021-05-15T19:41:07Z

On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 08:20:40PM +0200, Ansuel Smith wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 07:08:57PM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 07:30:26PM +0200, Ansuel Smith wrote:
> > > Do you want to try a quick patch so we can check if this is the case?
> > > (about the cover letter... sorry will check why i'm pushing this
> > > wrong)
> >
> > There's definitely something odd going on here. I went back to mainline
> > to see what the situation is there. With the GPIO MDIO driver both
> > switches work (expected, as this is what I run with). I changed switch0
> > over to use the IPQ MDIO driver and it wasn't detected (but switch1
> > still on the GPIO MDIO driver was fine).
> >
> > I then tried putting both switches onto the IPQ MDIO driver and in that
> > instance switch0 came up fine, while switch1 wasn't detected.
> >
>
> Oh wait, your board have 2 different switch? So they both use the master
> bit when used... Mhhh I need to think about this if there is a clean way
> to handle this. The idea would be that one of the 2 dsa switch should
> use the already defined mdio bus.
>
> The problem here is that to use the internal mdio bus, a bit must be
> set or 0 is read on every value (as the bit actually disable the internal
> mdio). This is good if one dsa driver is used but when 2 or more are
> used I think this clash and only one of them work. The gpio mdio path is
> not affected by this. Will check if I can find some way to address this.

They're on 2 separate sets of GPIOs if that makes a difference - switch0
is in gpio0/1 and switch1 is on gpio10/11. Is the internal MDIO logic
shared between these? Also even if that's the case it seems odd that
enabling the MDIO for just switch0 doesn't work?

J.

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