Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Support serdes ports on MV88E6123/6131

2020-10-20 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux admin
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 09:24:04PM +, Chris Packham wrote:
> 
> On 20/10/20 11:18 pm, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 04:45:58PM +1300, Chris Packham wrote:
> >> +void mv88e6123_serdes_get_regs(struct mv88e6xxx_chip *chip, int port, 
> >> void *_p)
> >> +{
> >> +  u16 *p = _p;
> >> +  u16 reg;
> >> +  int i;
> >> +
> >> +  if (mv88e6xxx_serdes_get_lane(chip, port) == 0)
> >> +  return;
> >> +
> >> +  for (i = 0; i < 26; i++) {
> >> +  mv88e6xxx_phy_read(chip, port, i, ®);
> > Shouldn't this deal with a failed read in some way, rather than just
> > assigning the last or possibly uninitialised value to p[i] ?
> 
> mv88e6390_serdes_get_regs() and mv88e6352_serdes_get_regs() also ignore 
> the error. The generic mv88e6xxx_get_regs() memsets p[] to 0xff so if 
> the serdes_get_regs functions just left it alone we'd return 0x 
> which is probably better than repeating the last value although it's 
> still ambiguous because 0x is a valid value for plenty of these 
> registers.
> 
> Since it looks like I need to come up with an alternative to patch #1 
> I'll concentrate on that but making the serdes_get_regs() a little more 
> error tolerant is a cleanup I can easily tack on onto this series.

Yep, it looks like they all suffer the same problem. Interestingly,
mv88e6xxx_get_regs() does handle the error by avoiding writing the
register entry (so it gets left as 0x.)

Incidentally, that's also the value you'll get when reading from a
PHY that doesn't respond, since the MDIO data line is pulled high
when undriven.

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Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Support serdes ports on MV88E6123/6131

2020-10-20 Thread Chris Packham

On 20/10/20 11:18 pm, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 04:45:58PM +1300, Chris Packham wrote:
>> +void mv88e6123_serdes_get_regs(struct mv88e6xxx_chip *chip, int port, void 
>> *_p)
>> +{
>> +u16 *p = _p;
>> +u16 reg;
>> +int i;
>> +
>> +if (mv88e6xxx_serdes_get_lane(chip, port) == 0)
>> +return;
>> +
>> +for (i = 0; i < 26; i++) {
>> +mv88e6xxx_phy_read(chip, port, i, ®);
> Shouldn't this deal with a failed read in some way, rather than just
> assigning the last or possibly uninitialised value to p[i] ?

mv88e6390_serdes_get_regs() and mv88e6352_serdes_get_regs() also ignore 
the error. The generic mv88e6xxx_get_regs() memsets p[] to 0xff so if 
the serdes_get_regs functions just left it alone we'd return 0x 
which is probably better than repeating the last value although it's 
still ambiguous because 0x is a valid value for plenty of these 
registers.

Since it looks like I need to come up with an alternative to patch #1 
I'll concentrate on that but making the serdes_get_regs() a little more 
error tolerant is a cleanup I can easily tack on onto this series.


Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Support serdes ports on MV88E6123/6131

2020-10-20 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux admin
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 04:45:58PM +1300, Chris Packham wrote:
> +void mv88e6123_serdes_get_regs(struct mv88e6xxx_chip *chip, int port, void 
> *_p)
> +{
> + u16 *p = _p;
> + u16 reg;
> + int i;
> +
> + if (mv88e6xxx_serdes_get_lane(chip, port) == 0)
> + return;
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < 26; i++) {
> + mv88e6xxx_phy_read(chip, port, i, ®);

Shouldn't this deal with a failed read in some way, rather than just
assigning the last or possibly uninitialised value to p[i] ?

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