Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: continue searching for C45 MMDs even if first returned ffff:ffff

[Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 11:51:37PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 10:12:10PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > Then the rest of the code just carried on thinking "ok, MMD 1 (PMA/PMD)
> > > says that there are 31 devices in that package, each having a device id
> > > of ffff:ffff, that's perfectly fine, let's go ahead and probe this PHY
> > > device".
> > 
> > With a device ID of ffff:ffff, what PHY driver was getting loaded?
> > 
> 
> You mean ffff:fffe.

Sorry, I was wrong to correct you here. ffff:fffe was the
devices-in-package register, the phy id was ffff:ffff. Doesn't change
the rest of the answer though.

> No PHY driver. I am driving this PCS locally from within
> drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix_vsc9959.c. I call get_phy_device at the
> address where I know a PCS is present, for the simple reason that I like
> an extra validation that my internal MDIO reads/writes are going
> somewhere. I've had situations in the past where the PCS was working
> because the bootloader had initialized it, however the internal MDIO
> reads/writes from Linux were broken. So, the fact that get_phy_device
> can read the PHY ID correctly is giving me some assurance.
> 
> > > - MDIO_DEVS1=0x008a, MDIO_DEVS2=0x0000,
> > > - MDIO_DEVID1=0x0083, MDIO_DEVID2=0xe400
> > 
> > Now that we have valid IDs, is the same driver getting loaded? Do this
> > ID adding somewhere?
> > 
> 
> Not applicable, see above.
> 
> > > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> > 
> >     Andrew
> 
> Thanks,
> -Vladimir