Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/2] net: phy: mdio-gpio: Add platform_data support for phy_mask

[Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>]

Le 12/8/18 à 7:12 AM, Andrew Lunn a écrit :
> It is sometimes necessary to instantiate a bit-banging MDIO bus as a
> platform device, without the aid of device tree.
> 
> When device tree is being used, the bus is not scanned for devices,
> only those devices which are in device tree are probed. Without device
> tree, by default, all addresses on the bus are scanned. This may then
> find a device which is not a PHY, e.g. a switch. And the switch may
> have registers containing values which look like a PHY. So during the
> scan, a PHY device is wrongly created.
> 
> After the bus has been registered, a search is made for
> mdio_board_info structures which indicates devices on the bus, and the
> driver which should be used for them. This is typically used to
> instantiate Ethernet switches from platform drivers.  However, if the
> scanning of the bus has created a PHY device at the same location as
> indicated into the board info for a switch, the switch device is not
> created, since the address is already busy.
> 
> This can be avoided by setting the phy_mask of the mdio bus. This mask
> prevents addresses on the bus being scanned.
> 
> v2
> --
> int -> u32 in platform data structure
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
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Florian