[PATCH net v3] net: dsa: mt7530: fix impossible MDIO address and issue warning

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Tue Jul 2 18:07:02 PDT 2024


On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 12:44:28AM +0100, Daniel Golle wrote:
> The MDIO address of the MT7530 and MT7531 switch ICs can be configured
> using bootstrap pins. However, there are only 4 possible options for the
> switch itself: 7, 15, 23 and 31. As in MediaTek's SDK the address of the
> switch is wrongly stated in the device tree as 0 (while in reality it is
> 31), warn the user about such broken device tree and make a good guess
> what was actually intended.
> 
> This is imporant also to not break compatibility with older Device Trees
> as with commit 868ff5f4944a ("net: dsa: mt7530-mdio: read PHY address of
> switch from device tree") the address in device tree will be taken into
> account, while before it was hard-coded to 0x1f.
> 
> Fixes: b8f126a8d543 ("net-next: dsa: add dsa support for Mediatek MT7530 switch")
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org>

Fun code. Not seen anything like this before.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>

    Andrew



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