Re: [PATCH net-next 5/6] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add helper for switch ready

Hi Andrew,

Andrew Lunn [off-list ref] writes:

As we have seen in the past, this sort of loop is broken if we end up
sleeping for a long time. Please take the opportunity to replace it
with one of our _wait() helpers, e.g. mv88e6xxx_g1_wait()

That won't work. the _wait() helpers are made to wait on self-clear (SC)
bits, i.e. looping until they are cleared to zero.

Here we want the opposite.

I will keep this existing wait loop for the moment and work soon on a
new patchset to rework the wait routines. We need a generic access to
test a given value against a given mask and wrappers for busy bits, etc.

quoted

+int mv88e6xxx_g1_init_ready(struct mv88e6xxx_chip *chip, bool *ready)
+{
+	u16 val;
+	int err;
+
+	/* Check the value of the InitReady bit 11 */
+	err = mv88e6xxx_g1_read(chip, GLOBAL_STATUS, &val);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
+	*ready = !!(val & GLOBAL_STATUS_INIT_READY);

I would actually do the wait here.

That is better indeed.

Thanks,

        Vivien