[PATCH 2/3] net: hisilicon: new hip04 MDIO driver

[Florian Fainelli]

2014-03-20 3:53 GMT-07:00 Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao at gmail.com>:
> Dear Florian
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2014-03-18 1:40 GMT-07:00 Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao at linaro.org>:
>
>>> +static int hip04_mdio_reset(struct mii_bus *bus)
>>> +{
>>> +       int temp, err, i;
>>> +
>>> +       for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
>>> +               hip04_mdio_write(bus, i, 22, 0);
>>> +               temp = hip04_mdio_read(bus, i, MII_BMCR);
>>> +               temp |= BMCR_RESET;
>>> +               err = hip04_mdio_write(bus, i, MII_BMCR, temp);
>>> +               if (err < 0)
>>> +                       return err;
>>> +       }
>>> +
>>> +       mdelay(500);
>>
>> This does not look correct, you should iterate over all possible PHYs:
>> PHY_MAX_ADDR instead of hardcoding the loop to 2.
>
> OK, got it.
> Use 2 is since only have 2 phy in the board, will use PHY_MAX_ADDR instead.
>>
>> I think we might want to remove the mdio bus reset callback in general
>> as the PHY library should already take care of software resetting the
>> PHY to put it in a sane state, as well as waiting for the appropriate
>> delay before using, unlike here, where you do not poll for BMCR_RESET
>> to be cleared by the PHY.
>>
> Do you mean will move BMCR_RESET to common code, that's would be great.
> The mdio_reset is added here to get phy_id, otherwise the phy_id can
> not be read as well as detection.

Oh I see, thanks for mentioning that, this is not properly covered
here today as we need to get the PHY id before we assign it a
phy_device structure, let me cook a patch for this.
-- 
Florian