Re: [PATCH 2/7] net: phy: Fix the register offsets in Broadcom iProc mdio mux driver

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu Jul 26 2018 - 15:29:30 EST


On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 12:25:24PM -0700, Ray Jui wrote:
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> On 7/26/2018 12:16 PM, Arun Parameswaran wrote:
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> >On 18-07-26 12:06 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> >>On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 11:36:19AM -0700, Arun Parameswaran wrote:
> >>>Modify the register offsets in the Broadcom iProc mdio mux to start
> >>>from the top of the register address space.
> >>>
> >>>Earlier the base address specified was from the middle of the block's
> >>>register space. The base address will now point to the start of the
> >>>mdio's address space. The offsets have been fixed to match this.
> >>
> >>Hi Arun
> >>
> >>Did you consider a change something like:
> >That looks good. I will make this change to the patch.
> >
> >Thanks
> >Arun
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> To make it backward compatible, then length of the resource also needs to be
> adjusted from 0x14 to 0x250 in the driver?
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> Otherwise you will end up accessing areas out of 0x14 defined in old DT that
> is not mapped?

struct resource {
resource_size_t start;
resource_size_t end;
const char *name;
unsigned long flags;
unsigned long desc;
struct resource *parent, *sibling, *child;
};

"end" suggests an address, not a length. But it would be good to look
deeper into the code to be sure.

Andrew