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Date:   Tue, 21 Jun 2022 01:04:58 +0200
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Subject: Re: [net-next: PATCH 08/12] ACPI: scan: prevent double enumeration of
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pon., 20 cze 2022 o 19:53 Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> napisa=C5=82(a):
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 05:02:21PM +0200, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> > The MDIO bus is responsible for probing and registering its respective
> > children, such as PHYs or other kind of devices.
> >
> > It is required that ACPI scan code should not enumerate such
> > devices, leaving this task for the generic MDIO bus routines,
> > which are initiated by the controller driver.
> >
> > This patch prevents unwanted enumeration of the devices by setting
> > 'enumeration_by_parent' flag, depending on whether their parent
> > device is a member of a known list of MDIO controllers. For now,
> > the Marvell MDIO controllers' IDs are added.
>
> This flag is used for serial buses that are not self-discoverable. Not su=
re
> about MDIO, but the current usage has a relation to the _CRS. Have you
> considered to propose the MdioSerialBus() resource type to ACPI specifica=
tion?
>

Indeed, one of the cases checked in the
acpi_device_enumeration_by_parent() is checking _CRS (of the bus child
device) for being of the serial bus type. Currently I see
I2C/SPI/UARTSerialBus resource descriptors in the specification. Since
MDIO doesn't seem to require any special description macros like the
mentioned ones (for instance see I2CSerialBusV2 [1]), Based on
example: dfda4492322ed ("ACPI / scan: Do not enumerate Indirect IO
host children"), I thought of similar one perhaps being applicable.

Maybe there is some different, more proper solution, I'd be happy to
hear from the ACPI Maintainers.

[1] https://uefi.org/specs/ACPI/6.4/19_ASL_Reference/ACPI_Source_Language_R=
eference.html?highlight=3Di2cserialbus#i2cserialbusterm

Best regards,
Marcin