[RFC v8 net-next 00/16] add support for VSC7512 control over SPI

[Vladimir Oltean]

Hi Colin,

On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 03:00:10PM -0700, Colin Foster wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 05:13:05PM +0000, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > Hi Colin,
> > 
> > On Sun, May 08, 2022 at 11:52:57AM -0700, Colin Foster wrote:
> > > 
> > > 		mdio0: mdio0 at 0 {
> > 
> > This is going to be interesting. Some drivers with multiple MDIO buses
> > create an "mdios" container with #address-cells = <1> and put the MDIO
> > bus nodes under that. Others create an "mdio" node and an "mdio0" node
> > (and no address for either of them).
> > 
> > The problem with the latter approach is that
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mdio.yaml does not accept the
> > "mdio0"/"mdio1" node name for an MDIO bus.
> 
> I'm starting this implementation. Yep - it is interesting.
> 
> A quick grep for "mdios" only shows one hit:
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-lx2160a-bluebox3.dts
> 
> While that has an mdios field (two, actually), each only has one mdio
> bus, and they all seem to get parsed / registered through
> sja1105_mdiobus_.*_register.
> 
> 
> Is this change correct (I have a feeling it isn't):
> 
> ocelot-chip at 0 {
>     #address-cells = <1>;
>     #size-cells = <0>;
> 
>     ...
> 
>     mdio0: mdio at 0 {
>         reg=<0>;
>         ...
>     };
> 
>     mdio1: mdio at 1 {
>         reg = <1>;
>         ...
>     };
>     ...
> };
> 
> When I run this with MFD's (use,)of_reg, things work as I'd expect. But
> I don't directly have the option to use an "mdios" container here
> because MFD runs "for_each_child_of_node" doesn't dig into
> mdios->mdio0...

Sorry for the delayed response. I think you can avoid creating an
"mdios" container node, but you need to provide some "reg" values based
on which the MDIO controllers can be distinguished. What is your convention
for "reg" values of MFD cells? Maybe pass the base address/size of this
device's regmap as the "reg", even if the driver itself won't use it?