[PATCH v1 2/2] net: mdio: fixup ethernet phy module auto-load function

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From: Yinbo Zhu <zhuyinbo@loongson.cn>
Date: 2021-11-23 05:32:47
Also in: linux-kbuild, lkml
Subsystem: ethernet phy library, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, Heiner Kallweit, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

the phy_id is only phy identifier, that phy module auto-load function
should according the phy_id event rather than other information, this
patch is remove other unnecessary information and add phy_id event in
mdio_uevent function and ethernet phy module auto-load function will
work well.

Signed-off-by: Yinbo Zhu <zhuyinbo@loongson.cn>
---
Hi Russell King,

I don't see that mail from you, but I have a look about your advice for my patch on netdev patchwork
The MDIO bus contains more than just PHYs. This completely breaks
anything that isn't a PHY device - likely by performing an
out-of-bounds access.

This change also _totally_ breaks any MDIO devices that rely on
matching via the "of:" mechanism using the compatible specified in
DT. An example of that is the B53 DSA switch.

Sorry, but we've already learnt this lesson from a similar case with
SPI. Once one particular way of dealing with MODALIAS has been
established for auto-loading modules for a subsystem, it is very
difficult to change it without causing regressions.
We need a very clear description of the problem that these patches are
attempting to address, and then we need to see that effort has been
put in to verify that changing the auto-loading mechanism is safe to
do - such as auditing every single driver that use the MDIO subsystem.
if mdio_uevent doesn't include my patch, you will see that mdio uevent is like 
"MODALIAS= of:NphyTethernet-phyCmarvell,88E1512", "marvell,88E1512" is only a
phy dts compatible, and that name can use any a string that in the same driver, 
if phy driver not use dts, and this MODALIAS is NULL, it is not unique, and even
thoug use that modalias, that do_mdio_entry doesn't get that compatibe 
information, event though it can get compatible and it looks ugly, but that phy id 
is unique if phy chip following 802.3 spec,
whatever whether use dts, use phy id it will always okay that phy dev to match phy
 driver, because phy it is getted by mdiobus_register
and mdio device driver will call mdiobus_register whatever whether use dts.
quoted hunk
 struct bus_type mdio_bus_type = {
-	.name		= "mdio_bus",
+	.name		= "mdio",
This looks like an unrelated user-interface breaking change. This
changes the path of all MDIO devices and drivers in /sys/bus/mdio_bus/*

I think mdio_bus is ugly, you can other bus, eg. usb,pci.  in addition, mdio bus name 
should be Consistent with mdio alias configure, eg. MDIO_MODULE_PREFIX.

BRs,
Yinbo Zhu. 

 drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
index 6865d93..999f0d4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
@@ -962,12 +962,12 @@ static int mdio_bus_match(struct device *dev, struct device_driver *drv)
 
 static int mdio_uevent(struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
 {
-	int rc;
+	struct phy_device *pdev;
 
-	/* Some devices have extra OF data and an OF-style MODALIAS */
-	rc = of_device_uevent_modalias(dev, env);
-	if (rc != -ENODEV)
-		return rc;
+	pdev = to_phy_device(dev);
+
+	if (add_uevent_var(env, "MODALIAS=mdio:p%08X", pdev->phy_id))
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ static int mdio_uevent(struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
 };
 
 struct bus_type mdio_bus_type = {
-	.name		= "mdio_bus",
+	.name		= "mdio",
 	.dev_groups	= mdio_bus_dev_groups,
 	.match		= mdio_bus_match,
 	.uevent		= mdio_uevent,
-- 
1.8.3.1
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