Re: [PATCH 4/6] of: add API for changing parameters of fixed link
From: Stas Sergeev <hidden>
Date: 2015-03-27 16:07:46
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27.03.2015 18:41, Florian Fainelli пишет:
2015-03-27 6:37 GMT-07:00 Stas Sergeev [off-list ref]:quoted
The following API is added: - of_phy_fixed_link_set_link() allows to set link state (up/down) - of_phy_fixed_link_set_speed() allows to set link speed - of_phy_fixed_link_set_duplex() allows to enable/disable duplex This API is needed when the MDIO-less link have some other means of a status passing to MAC, for example with in-band data (SGMII). MAC driver can then use that API to update the PHY status.I do not think any of these changes are required, if you look at drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c, there is a fixed_link_update callback to re-act to link up/down interrupts (but this could easily be extended to speed/duplex as well), by directly modifying a fixed_phy_status structure. Can you try that approach in mvneta?
Just to make sure I properly understand what you want. drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c registers the .fixed_link_update callback of struct dsa_switch_driver, which is later called from net/dsa/slave.c's dsa_slave_fixed_link_update(). Do you want mvneta to register a similar callback in of_mdio, instead of adding an explicit state-updating functions? Something like of_phy_fixed_link_set_update_callback()? This will remove a few changes indeed, but perhaps not too much. Please confirm if this is exactly what you want, and then I try.