Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: phy: motorcomm: enable the reference clock for YT8521 and YT8531
From: Alexey Charkov <alchark@gmail.com>
Date: 2026-07-28 04:17:18
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Hi Jaxing, On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 1:04 AM Jiaxing Hu [off-list ref] wrote:
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These PHYs need a 25 MHz reference. On boards without a local crystal it is fed from the SoC and described as a clock on the PHY node. Get and enable it in probe, via a small helper called from both yt8521_probe and yt8531_probe, so the PHY is clocked before its registers are accessed. The clock is optional, so crystal-clocked boards are unaffected. Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: Jiaxing Hu <redacted> --- Changes in v2: - Factor the clock enable into ytphy_get_and_enable_refclk() and call it from yt8521_probe as well, so the YT8521 is covered too, not only the YT8531. v1 only touched yt8531_probe. - Carried Andrew's Reviewed-by; the enable itself is unchanged, only moved into the helper. v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260719034555.3623003-1-gahing@gahingwoo.com/ (local) A second crystal-less RK3576 board with a YT8521 needs the same handling (see the RK3576 GMAC 25M refout thread [1]), so v2 covers both PHYs. This supersedes the withdrawn dwmac-rk MAC-side series. The DTS that consumes the clock (rk3576-armsom-cm5) goes to the rockchip tree separately; the clock is optional so this patch stands alone. The YT8531 path is tested on an ArmSoM CM5-IO (links at 1000 Mbit/s). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260727021048.3375444-1-attinagaoxu@gmail.com/ (local) drivers/net/phy/motorcomm.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/motorcomm.c b/drivers/net/phy/motorcomm.c index 708491bc1..32eb5ce93 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/motorcomm.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/motorcomm.c@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ * Author: Frank <Frank.Sae@motor-comm.com> */ +#include <linux/clk.h> #include <linux/etherdevice.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/module.h>@@ -1043,6 +1044,29 @@ static int yt8531_set_ds(struct phy_device *phydev) return 0; } +/** + * ytphy_get_and_enable_refclk() - get and enable the PHY reference clock + * @phydev: a pointer to a &struct phy_device + * + * A crystal-less YT8521/YT8531 takes its 25 MHz reference from the SoC. When + * that reference is described as a clock, enable it for the life of the + * device. It is optional, so crystal-clocked boards are unaffected. + * + * returns 0 or negative errno code + */ +static int ytphy_get_and_enable_refclk(struct phy_device *phydev) +{ + struct device *dev = &phydev->mdio.dev; + struct clk *clk; + + clk = devm_clk_get_optional_enabled(dev, NULL); + if (IS_ERR(clk)) + return dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(clk), + "failed to get and enable the reference clock\n");
A helper for a single-line function call looks like an overkill, and requires scrolling to understand what is going on where an open-coded version would be self-explanatory at the first glance. Maybe fold it into the two caller functions instead? Best regards, Alexey