Re: [net-next PATCH 2/2] net: airoha: add phylink support for GDM1

[Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 09:33:12PM +0200, Christian Marangi wrote:

...

> +static int airoha_setup_phylink(struct net_device *netdev)
> +{
> +	struct airoha_gdm_port *port = netdev_priv(netdev);
> +	struct device *dev = &netdev->dev;
> +	phy_interface_t phy_mode;

Hi Christian,

phy_interface_t is an enum and thus may in practice be unsigned...

> +	struct phylink *phylink;
> +
> +	phy_mode = device_get_phy_mode(dev);
> +	if (phy_mode < 0) {

... if so, this condition will always be false.

I suspect the correct approach here is to change the type of phy_mode to int.

Flagged by Smatch.

> +		dev_err(dev, "incorrect phy-mode\n");
> +		return phy_mode;
> +	}
> +
> +	port->phylink_config.dev = dev;
> +	port->phylink_config.type = PHYLINK_NETDEV;
> +	port->phylink_config.mac_capabilities = MAC_ASYM_PAUSE | MAC_SYM_PAUSE |
> +						MAC_10000FD;
> +
> +	__set_bit(PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_INTERNAL,
> +		  port->phylink_config.supported_interfaces);
> +
> +	phylink = phylink_create(&port->phylink_config, dev_fwnode(dev),
> +				 phy_mode, &airoha_phylink_ops);
> +	if (IS_ERR(phylink))
> +		return PTR_ERR(phylink);
> +
> +	port->phylink = phylink;
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static int airoha_alloc_gdm_port(struct airoha_eth *eth,
>  				 struct device_node *np, int index)
>  {

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