[PATCH net-next v4 0/4] net: add a regmap-based mdio driver and drop TSE PCS

Maxime Chevallier
2023-06-01T14:15:23Z

Hello everyone,

This is the V4 of a series that follows-up on the work [1] aiming to drop the
altera TSE PCS driver, as it turns out to be a version of the Lynx PCS exposed
as a memory-mapped block, instead of living on an MDIO bus.

One step of this removal involved creating a regmap-based mdio driver
that translates MDIO accesses into the actual underlying bus that
exposes the register. The register layout must of course match the
standard MDIO layout, but we can now account for differences in stride
with recent work on the regmap subsystem [2].

Sorry for repeating this, but I didn't hear anything on this matter in previous
iterations, Mark, Net maintainers, this series depends on the patch
e12ff2876493 that was recently merged into the regmap tree [3].

For this series to be usable in net-next, this patch must be applied
beforehand. Should Mark create a tag that would then be merged into
net-next ? Or should we just wait for the next release to merge this
into net-next ?

This series introduces a new MDIO driver, and uses it to convert Altera
TSE from the actual TSE PCS driver to Lynx PCS.

Since it turns out dwmac_socfpga also uses a TSE PCS block, port that
driver to Lynx as well.

Changes in V4 :
- Use new pcs_lynx_create/destroy helpers added by Russell
- Rework the cleanup sequence to avoid leaking data
- Rework a bit KConfig to properly select dependencies
- Fix a few hiccups with misplaced hunks in 2 commits

Changes in V3 :
- Use a dedicated struct for the mii bus's priv data, to avoid
duplicating the whole struct mdio_regmap_config, from which 2 fields
only are necessary after init, as suggested by Russell
- Use ~0 instead of ~0UL for the no-scan bitmask, following Simon's
review.

Changes in V2 :
- Use phy_mask to avoid unnecessarily scanning the whole mdio bus
- Go one step further and completely disable scanning if users
set the .autoscan flag to false, in case the mdiodevice isn't an
actual PHY (a PCS for example).

Thanks,

Maxime

[1] : https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230324093644.464704-1-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com/
[2] : https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230407152604.105467-1-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com/#t
[3] : https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap.git/commit/?id=e12ff28764937dd58c8613f16065da60da149048

Maxime Chevallier (4):
net: mdio: Introduce a regmap-based mdio driver
net: ethernet: altera-tse: Convert to mdio-regmap and use PCS Lynx
net: pcs: Drop the TSE PCS driver
net: stmmac: dwmac-sogfpga: use the lynx pcs driver

MAINTAINERS | 14 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/altera/Kconfig | 2 +
drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c | 57 +++-
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig | 3 +
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Makefile | 2 +-
.../ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/altr_tse_pcs.c | 257 ------------------
.../ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/altr_tse_pcs.h | 29 --
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/common.h | 2 +
.../ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-socfpga.c | 91 +++++--
.../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 12 +-
.../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_mdio.c | 3 +
drivers/net/mdio/Kconfig | 11 +
drivers/net/mdio/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/net/mdio/mdio-regmap.c | 93 +++++++
drivers/net/pcs/Kconfig | 6 -
drivers/net/pcs/Makefile | 1 -
drivers/net/pcs/pcs-altera-tse.c | 160 -----------
include/linux/mdio/mdio-regmap.h | 26 ++
include/linux/pcs-altera-tse.h | 17 --
19 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 516 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/altr_tse_pcs.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/altr_tse_pcs.h
create mode 100644 drivers/net/mdio/mdio-regmap.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/net/pcs/pcs-altera-tse.c
create mode 100644 include/linux/mdio/mdio-regmap.h
delete mode 100644 include/linux/pcs-altera-tse.h

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