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Date:   Wed, 4 Nov 2020 17:55:09 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To:     Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com>
Cc:     Bryan Whitehead <bryan.whitehead@microchip.com>,
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        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] lan743x: correctly handle chips with internal PHY
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On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 11:39:47AM -0500, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:
> Hi Andrew, many thanks for looking at this patch !
> 
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 11:27 AM Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
> >
> > > Note that as a side-effect, the devicetree phy mode now no longer
> > > has a default, and always needs to be specified explicitly (via
> > > 'phy-connection-type').
> >
> > That sounds like it could break systems. Why do you do this?
> 
> Because the standard mdio library function (of_phy_get_and_connect())
> does not appear to support a default value. The original driver
> code duplicated that library function's code, with a slight
> tweak - the default value.
> 
> The default value was introduced quite recently, in the commit which
> this patch fixes:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c?h=v5.9.3&id=6f197fb63850b26ef8f70f1bfe5900e377910a5a

If you look at that patch, you see:

-       ret = phy_connect_direct(netdev, phydev,
-                                lan743x_phy_link_status_change,
-                                PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_GMII);
-       if (ret)
-               goto return_error;


That was added as part of the first commit for the lan743x
driver. Changing that now seems dangerous.

This is a fix you want backporting to stable. Such fixes should be
minimal, and obviously correct. So i suggest you keep with the open
coded version of of_phy_get_and_connect(), and make sure it keeps with
the default as PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_GMII. That can be committed to net
as a fix.

You can then consider a refactoring patch for net-next, and see about
modifying of_phy_get_and_connect() to do what you need.

	  Andrew