Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: macb: In shared MDIO usecase make MDIO producer ethernet node to probe first

[Saravana Kannan]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 12:49 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Thanks for the review.  I want to get your thoughts on the outline of
> > > the generic solution. Is the current approach fine and we can extend it
> > > for all shared MDIO use cases/ or do we see any limitations?
> > >
> > > a) Figure out if the MDIO bus is shared.  (new binding or reuse existing)
> > > b) If the MDIO bus is shared based on DT property then figure out if the
> > > MDIO producer platform device is probed. If not, defer MDIO consumer
> > > MDIO bus registration.
> >
> > Radhey,
> >
> > I think Andrew added me because he's pointing you towards fw_devlink.
> >
> > Andrew,
> >
> > I have intentionally not added phy-handle support to fw_devlink
> > because it would also prevent the generic driver from binding/cause
> > issues with DSA. I have some high level ideas on fixing that but
> > haven't gotten around to it yet.
>
> I took a quick look at macb, and i think it is actually broken in
> other ways. If you where to use NFS root, i suspect it would also
> fail.
>
> This also has nothing to do with shared MDIO busses as such. All it
> requires is some other MDIO bus, not the MACs own MDIO bus.
>
> It is also that we cannot return -EPROBE_DEFER when trying to connect
> the PHY, because it is not performed in the context of the probe, but
> the open.
>
> fw_dewlink might help solve this, bit it is not going to be easy. We
> can also split this into two problems;
>
> 1) probe time
> 2) suspend/resume
>
> macb does seem to probe, for most use cases. So we can probably ignore
> that for now. So we can concentrate on suspend/resume. You say
> suspend/resume is based on probe order. So it must build some sort of
> tree. Can we make phy_attach_direct add an additional link to this
> tree when a MAC device is link to a PHY? Is this what
> device_link_add() is about?

Based on the flags you pass, you can tell device link to only enforce
suspend/resume ordering or also enforce probe ordering.

-Saravana