On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 04:52:13PM +0000, Robert Hancock wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-02-13 at 10:45 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 08:18:40PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> > > + if (!phydev->sfp_bus &&
> > > + (!phydev->attached_dev || !phydev->attached_dev->sfp_bus)) {
> >
> > First, do we want this to be repeated in every driver?
> >
> > Second, are you sure this is the correct condition to be using for
> > this? phydev->sfp_bus is non-NULL when _this_ PHY has a SFP bus
> > connected to its fibre side, it will never be set for a PHY on a
> > SFP. The fact that it is non-NULL or NULL shouldn't have a bearing
> > on whether we configure the LED register.
>
> I think you're correct, the phydev->sfp_bus portion is probably not useful and
> could be dropped. What we're really concerned about is whether this PHY is on
> an SFP module or not. I'm not sure that a module-specific quirk makes sense
> here since there are probably other models which have a similar design where
> the LED outputs from the PHY are used for other purposes, and there's really
> no
> benefit to playing with the LED outputs on SFP modules in any case, so it
> would
> be safer to skip the LED reconfiguration for anything on an SFP. So we could
> either have a condition for "!phydev->attached_dev || !phydev->attached_dev-
> >sfp_bus" here and anywhere else that needs a similar check, or we do
> >something
> different, like have a specific flag to indicate that this PHY is on an SFP
> module? What do people think is best here?
I don't think relying on phydev->attached_dev in any way is a good
idea, and I suspect a flag is going to be way better. One of the
problems is that phydev->dev_flags are PHY specific at the moment.
Not sure if we can do anything about that.
In the short term, at the very least, I think we should wrap whatever
test we use in a "phy_on_sfp(phydev)" helper so that we have a standard
helper for this.
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