[PATCH net-next v2 1/2] net: axienet: use device_property and fwnode APIs for probe-time config
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From: Sagi Maimon <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-28 07:43:20
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Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest, xilinx axi ethernet driver · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds, Radhey Shyam Pandey
Revision v2 of 2 in this series; queued in net-next as f5185ec79dac on 2026-10-01.
Revisions (2)
- v1 [diff vs current]
- v2 current
axienet_probe() reads its configuration exclusively through the of_* API, so the driver can only be instantiated from a device tree node. The ADVA TimeCard X2 is a PCIe timing card, driven by ptp_ocp, whose FPGA contains an AXI Ethernet MAC with an AXI DMA engine. ptp_ocp is going to register the MAC as a child platform device described by a software node, so that this driver runs it rather than a copy in ptp_ocp. That needs the probe-time configuration to be readable from a software node. Convert only the lookups such a caller needs: "xlnx,rxmem", which probe requires; "phy-mode"; the MAC address; and the PHY connection, which is where phylink finds a "fixed-link" child. On a device tree this is a no-op: device_property_read_u32() dispatches to the of_* implementation when dev->fwnode is an OF node, phylink_of_phy_connect() is a wrapper around phylink_fwnode_phy_connect(), and device_get_phy_mode() and device_get_mac_address() are thin fwnode wrappers around the same lookups. device_get_mac_address() also keeps the "mac-address" nvmem cell fallback that of_get_mac_address() has. Note that device_get_phy_mode() returns the mode as a positive value rather than through an out parameter, so the error test changes from "if (ret)" to "if (ret < 0)". Everything else stays on the OF API. "xlnx,txcsum", "xlnx,rxcsum" and "xlnx,switch-x-sgmii" are optional, and "xlnx,phy-type" is deprecated in favour of "phy-mode". Without an OF node each of those lookups finds nothing, exactly as for a device tree node that leaves them out: no checksum offload, no runtime SGMII/1000BASE-X switching and a fall-through to "phy-mode". The "dmas" test likewise selects the built-in AXI DMA engine. The "axistream-connected", "pcs-handle" and "phy-handle" phandle lookups stay too: a caller without an OF node takes neither branch, getting its DMA registers from its own platform resources, and it cannot use the SGMII and 1000BASE-X modes, which need a PCS. No functional change intended. Tested on the X2 with a local ptp_ocp change, with CONFIG_OF disabled and enabled: the interface probes with its configuration read from the software node and passes traffic. No device tree board was available, so the claim that this is a no-op for device tree users rests on the dispatch described above. Assisted-by: LLM sparse Signed-off-by: Sagi Maimon <redacted> --- drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
index 782f903d318f..0f2170af9b10 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ #include <linux/of_irq.h> #include <linux/of_address.h> #include <linux/platform_device.h> +#include <linux/property.h> #include <linux/skbuff.h> #include <linux/math64.h> #include <linux/phy.h>
@@ -1671,7 +1672,7 @@ static int axienet_open(struct net_device *ndev) ret = axienet_device_reset(ndev); axienet_unlock_mii(lp); - ret = phylink_of_phy_connect(lp->phylink, lp->dev->of_node, 0); + ret = phylink_fwnode_phy_connect(lp->phylink, dev_fwnode(lp->dev), 0); if (ret) { dev_err(lp->dev, "phylink_of_phy_connect() failed: %d\n", ret); return ret;
@@ -2898,7 +2899,7 @@ static int axienet_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) * Here we check for memory allocated for Rx/Tx in the hardware from * the device-tree and accordingly set flags. */ - ret = of_property_read_u32(pdev->dev.of_node, "xlnx,rxmem", &lp->rxmem); + ret = device_property_read_u32(&pdev->dev, "xlnx,rxmem", &lp->rxmem); if (ret) return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, ret, "failed to read xlnx,rxmem property\n");
@@ -2930,9 +2931,10 @@ static int axienet_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return -EINVAL; } } else { - ret = of_get_phy_mode(pdev->dev.of_node, &lp->phy_mode); - if (ret) + ret = device_get_phy_mode(&pdev->dev); + if (ret < 0) return ret; + lp->phy_mode = ret; } if (lp->switch_x_sgmii && lp->phy_mode != PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_SGMII && lp->phy_mode != PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_1000BASEX) {
@@ -3060,7 +3062,7 @@ static int axienet_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) dev_info(&pdev->dev, "Ethernet core IRQ not defined\n"); /* Retrieve the MAC address */ - ret = of_get_mac_address(pdev->dev.of_node, mac_addr); + ret = device_get_mac_address(&pdev->dev, mac_addr); if (!ret) { axienet_set_mac_address(ndev, mac_addr); } else {
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