Re: [PATCH 4/6] of: add API for changing parameters of fixed link
From: Stas Sergeev <hidden>
Date: 2015-03-27 16:40:01
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27.03.2015 19:21, Florian Fainelli пишет:
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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()?You don't need an of_phy_fixed_link_set_update callback, you just need to provide a fixed_link_update callback in mvneta, that you register,
That approach I in fact considered initially, as the simplest one, and even had a patch. But I disliked the fact that then mvneta will exploit the knowledge of the fact that of_phy_register_fixed_link() uses a fixed_phy driver. What if the implementation will later change? Also what makes me uncomfortable is that since of_phy_register_fixed_link() doesn't even return the struct phy_device pointer, mvneta will have to get around that and use for example of_phy_find_device(), or register the callback later, after of_phy_connect(). dsa/slave.c does of_phy_connect() initially, together with fixed link registration, so it gets around the problem. But mvneta registers the fixed_link in .probe callback, and does of_phy_connect() in .open callback. This all made me to drop that idea despite the simplicity.
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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.Let me know if this is clearer now, if not, I can certainly cook a patch which does what I am suggesting. Thanks!
I can do that too, because I already did. Let me know if the above concerns are not important, and I'll restore my initial patch. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html