From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47196C04A94 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2023 19:26:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232756AbjHHT0M (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2023 15:26:12 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:39082 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S234188AbjHHTZz (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2023 15:25:55 -0400 Received: from pandora.armlinux.org.uk (unknown [IPv6:2001:4d48:ad52:32c8:5054:ff:fe00:142]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BA8F315C77; Tue, 8 Aug 2023 11:50:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=armlinux.org.uk; s=pandora-2019; h=Sender:In-Reply-To:Content-Type: MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=4/GzwtgyO3yL3knqSnKkQgDt/ZjWhgYmwDUnxSNeivU=; b=ZTaAl906VvA1CO04UyyOSNt18z +3IsbiVKTQid2ofLWwAJuV39pbuhwcrgBohShnT12TDmSKX2N398Smb0yQ6vYmLiMSQI9SmWE0ST8 /HLOX7gO106Vq7WzEURe/5tYXFhRWYMXi3GeTQv6ElTJ6RsBP+fmFhTpgWlGtr9iGHGDvZ7KtytVB HEV8tzkFgXo8CCAK+ekTHO020J4KkSVQw2RNgKj8vzxYDdcwvl2MN9QFi0hEzMMIi9m1102JahkG8 glkP/uOPnrvH2Sdkg/PqFXfhl4KSnLpr0mDWeN71gIBtcfe2J8lxXA548ZuypvtcoOdL130E/jCjC NTlYDDug==; Received: from shell.armlinux.org.uk ([fd8f:7570:feb6:1:5054:ff:fe00:4ec]:42308) by pandora.armlinux.org.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1qTRar-0001Vc-0w; Tue, 08 Aug 2023 19:38:09 +0100 Received: from linux by shell.armlinux.org.uk with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1qTRao-0008LX-FJ; Tue, 08 Aug 2023 19:38:06 +0100 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2023 19:38:06 +0100 From: "Russell King (Oracle)" To: Bartosz Golaszewski Cc: Andrew Lunn , Andrew Halaney , "David S . Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Rob Herring , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Conor Dooley , Alexandre Torgue , Jose Abreu , Maxime Coquelin , Alex Elder , Srini Kandagatla , netdev@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Bartosz Golaszewski Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: stmmac: allow sharing MDIO lines Message-ID: References: <20230807193102.6374-1-brgl@bgdev.pl> <54421791-75fa-4ed3-8432-e21184556cde@lunn.ch> <65b53003-23cf-40fa-b9d7-f0dbb45a4cb2@lunn.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: Russell King (Oracle) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTP is here! 80Mbps down 10Mbps up. Decent connectivity at last!