[PATCH v3] net: phy: meson-gxl: Add generic dummy stubs for MMD register access
Jerome Brunet
jbrunet at baylibre.com
Tue Jan 31 02:05:19 PST 2023
On Mon 30 Jan 2023 at 15:14, Chris Healy <cphealy at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Chris Healy <healych at amazon.com>
>
> The Meson G12A Internal PHY does not support standard IEEE MMD extended
> register access, therefore add generic dummy stubs to fail the read and
> write MMD calls. This is necessary to prevent the core PHY code from
> erroneously believing that EEE is supported by this PHY even though this
> PHY does not support EEE, as MMD register access returns all FFFFs.
This is definitely something that should be done, Thx !
>
> Fixes: 5c3407abb338 ("net: phy: meson-gxl: add g12a support")
This commit does not seems appropriate, especially since only the GXL ops
are changed, not the g12a variant.
This brings a 2nd point, any reason for not changing the g12 variant ?
I'm fairly confident it does support EEE either.
> Reviewed-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1 at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Healy <healych at amazon.com>
>
> ---
>
> Changes in v3:
> * Add reviewed-by
> Change in v2:
> * Add fixes tag
>
> drivers/net/phy/meson-gxl.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/meson-gxl.c b/drivers/net/phy/meson-gxl.c
> index c49062ad72c6..5e41658b1e2f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/meson-gxl.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/meson-gxl.c
> @@ -271,6 +271,8 @@ static struct phy_driver meson_gxl_phy[] = {
> .handle_interrupt = meson_gxl_handle_interrupt,
> .suspend = genphy_suspend,
> .resume = genphy_resume,
> + .read_mmd = genphy_read_mmd_unsupported,
> + .write_mmd = genphy_write_mmd_unsupported,
> },
> };
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