Re: [net-next PATCH v4 06/13] net: dsa: qca8k: move rgmii delay detection to phylink mac_config

[Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 03:28:39PM +0200, Ansuel Smith wrote:
> > I was actually going to say that since RGMII delays are runtime
> > invariants, you should move their entire programming to probe time, now
> > you move device tree parsing to runtime :-/
> >
>
> The main idea here was to move everything to mac config and scan the DT
> node of the current port that is being configured.

If you insist on doing static configuration in a phylink callback, sure,
the comment was mostly about not accessing directly this struct dsa_port
member. It might change in the future, and the less refactoring required,
the better.

> > > -{
> > > -	struct device_node *port_dn;
> > > -	phy_interface_t mode;
> > > -	struct dsa_port *dp;
> > > -	u32 val;
> > > -
> > > -	/* CPU port is already checked */
> > > -	dp = dsa_to_port(priv->ds, 0);
> > > -
> > > -	port_dn = dp->dn;
> > > -
> > > -	/* Check if port 0 is set to the correct type */
> > > -	of_get_phy_mode(port_dn, &mode);
> > > -	if (mode != PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_ID &&
> > > -	    mode != PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_RXID &&
> > > -	    mode != PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_TXID) {
> > > -		return 0;
> > > -	}
> > > -
> > > -	switch (mode) {
> > > -	case PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_ID:
> > > -	case PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_RXID:
> >
> > Also, since you touch this area.
> > There have been tons of discussions on this topic, but I believe that
> > your interpretation of the RGMII delays is wrong.
> > Basically a MAC should not apply delays based on the phy-mode string (so
> > it should treat "rgmii" same as "rgmii-id"), but based on the value of
> > "rx-internal-delay-ps" and "tx-internal-delay-ps".
> > The phy-mode is for a PHY to use.
> >
>
> Ok so we can just drop the case and directly check for the
> internal-delay-ps presence?

Yes, but please consider existing device trees for this driver. I see
qcom-ipq8064-rb3011.dts and imx6dl-yapp4-common.dtsi, and neither use
explicit rx-internal-delay-ps or tx-internal-delay-ps properties. So
changing the driver to look at just those and ignore "rgmii-id" will
break those device trees, which is not pleasant. What would work is to
search first for *-internal-delay-ps, and then revert to determining the
delays based on the phy-mode, for compatibility.