[PATCH net-next v2 8/8] net: dsa: mt7530: simplify link operations and force link down on all ports

Jakub Kicinski kuba at kernel.org
Wed Feb 28 17:49:32 PST 2024


On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:05:36 +0300 Arınç ÜNAL via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal at arinc9.com>
> 
> Currently, the link operations for switch MACs are scattered across
> port_enable, port_disable, phylink_mac_config, phylink_mac_link_up, and
> phylink_mac_link_down.
> 
> port_enable and port_disable clears the link settings. Move that to
> mt7530_setup() and mt7531_setup_common() which set up the switches. This
> way, the link settings are cleared on all ports at setup, and then only
> once with phylink_mac_link_down() when a link goes down.
> 
> Enable force mode at setup to apply the force part of the link settings.
> This ensures that only active ports will have their link up.

I don't know phylink so some basic questions..

What's "mode" in this case?

> Now that the bit for setting the port on force mode is done on
> mt7530_setup() and mt7531_setup_common(), get rid of PMCR_FORCE_MODE_ID()
> which helped determine which bit to use for the switch model.

MT7531_FORCE_MODE also includes MT7531_FORCE_LNK, doesn't that mean 
the link will be up?

> The "MT7621 Giga Switch Programming Guide v0.3", "MT7531 Reference Manual
> for Development Board v1.0", and "MT7988A Wi-Fi 7 Generation Router
> Platform: Datasheet (Open Version) v0.1" documents show that these bits are
> enabled at reset:
> 
> PMCR_IFG_XMIT(1) (not part of PMCR_LINK_SETTINGS_MASK)
> PMCR_MAC_MODE (not part of PMCR_LINK_SETTINGS_MASK)
> PMCR_TX_EN
> PMCR_RX_EN
> PMCR_BACKOFF_EN (not part of PMCR_LINK_SETTINGS_MASK)
> PMCR_BACKPR_EN (not part of PMCR_LINK_SETTINGS_MASK)
> PMCR_TX_FC_EN
> PMCR_RX_FC_EN
> 
> These bits also don't exist on the MT7530_PMCR_P(6) register of the switch
> on the MT7988 SoC:
> 
> PMCR_IFG_XMIT()
> PMCR_MAC_MODE
> PMCR_BACKOFF_EN
> PMCR_BACKPR_EN
> 
> Remove the setting of the bits not part of PMCR_LINK_SETTINGS_MASK on
> phylink_mac_config as they're already set.

This should be a separate change.

> Suggested-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal at arinc9.com>

> @@ -2257,6 +2255,12 @@ mt7530_setup(struct dsa_switch *ds)
>  	mt7530_mib_reset(ds);
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < MT7530_NUM_PORTS; i++) {
> +		/* Clear link settings and enable force mode to force link down

"Clear link settings to force link down" makes sense.
Since I don't know what the mode is, the "and enable force mode"
sounds possibly out of place. If you're only combining this
for the convenience of RMW, keep the reasoning separate.



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