Thread (49 messages) 49 messages, 5 authors, 2023-10-09

Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] net: phy: add Rust Asix PHY driver

From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@gmail.com>
Date: 2023-10-06 14:30:57
Also in: rust-for-linux

On Fri, 6 Oct 2023 16:12:24 +0200
Greg KH [off-list ref] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 10:53:25PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
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On Fri, 6 Oct 2023 12:31:59 +0200
Greg KH [off-list ref] wrote:
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 06:49:11PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
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+config AX88796B_RUST_PHY
+	bool "Rust reference driver"
+	depends on RUST && AX88796B_PHY
+	default n
Nit, "n" is always the default, there is no need for this line.
Understood, I'll remove this line.
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+	help
+	  Uses the Rust version driver for Asix PHYs.
You need more text here please.  Provide a better description of what
hardware is supported and the name of the module if it is built aas a
module.

Also that if you select this one, the C driver will not be built (which
is not expressed in the Kconfig language, why not?
Because the way to load a PHY driver module can't handle multiple
modules with the same phy id (a NIC driver loads a PHY driver module).
There is no machinism to specify which PHY driver module should be
loaded when multiple PHY modules have the same phy id (as far as I know).
Sorry, I know that, I mean I am pretty sure you can express this "one or
the other" type of restriction in Kconfig, no need to encode it in the
Makefile logic.

Try doing "depens on AX88796B_PHY=n" as the dependency for the rust
driver.
You meant the following?

config AX88796B_PHY
	tristate "Asix PHYs"
	help
	  Currently supports the Asix Electronics PHY found in the X-Surf 100
	  AX88796B package.

config AX88796B_RUST_PHY
	bool "Rust reference driver"
	depends on RUST && AX88796B_PHY
	default n
	help
	  Uses the Rust version driver for Asix PHYs.


The problem is that there are NIC drivers that `select
AX88796B_PHY`. the Kconfig language doesn't support something like
`select AX88796B_PHY or AX88796B_RUST_PHY`, I guess.
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