Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/3] net: phy: add concept of shared storage for PHYs

[Andrew Lunn]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 03:43:02PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 04:34:55PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > +static inline bool phy_package_init_once(struct phy_device *phydev)
> > > +{
> > > +	struct phy_package_shared *shared = phydev->shared;
> > > +
> > > +	if (!shared)
> > > +		return false;
> > > +
> > > +	return !test_and_set_bit(PHY_SHARED_F_INIT_DONE, &shared->flags);
> > > +}
> > 
> > I need to look at how you actually use this, but i wonder if this is
> > sufficient. Can two PHYs probe at the same time? Could we have one PHY
> > be busy setting up the global init, and the other thinks the global
> > setup is complete? Do we want a comment like: 'Returns true when the
> > global package initialization is either under way or complete'?
> 
> IIRC, probe locking in the driver model is by per-driver locks, so
> any particular driver won't probe more than one device at a time.

Hi Russel

Cool, thanks for the info.

      Andrew