Re: [RFC v8 net-next 00/16] add support for VSC7512 control over SPI

[Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 09:15:00AM -0700, Colin Foster wrote:
> Hi Vladimir,
> 
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 02:44:41PM +0000, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > Hi Colin,
> > 
> > On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 03:00:10PM -0700, Colin Foster wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 05:13:05PM +0000, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > > > Hi Colin,
> > > > 
> > > > On Sun, May 08, 2022 at 11:52:57AM -0700, Colin Foster wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > 		mdio0: mdio0@0 {
> > > > 
> > > > This is going to be interesting. Some drivers with multiple MDIO buses
> > > > create an "mdios" container with #address-cells = <1> and put the MDIO
> > > > bus nodes under that. Others create an "mdio" node and an "mdio0" node
> > > > (and no address for either of them).
> > > > 
> > > > The problem with the latter approach is that
> > > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mdio.yaml does not accept the
> > > > "mdio0"/"mdio1" node name for an MDIO bus.
> > > 
> > > I'm starting this implementation. Yep - it is interesting.
> > > 
> > > A quick grep for "mdios" only shows one hit:
> > > arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-lx2160a-bluebox3.dts
> > > 
> > > While that has an mdios field (two, actually), each only has one mdio
> > > bus, and they all seem to get parsed / registered through
> > > sja1105_mdiobus_.*_register.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Is this change correct (I have a feeling it isn't):
> > > 
> > > ocelot-chip@0 {
> > >     #address-cells = <1>;
> > >     #size-cells = <0>;
> > > 
> > >     ...
> > > 
> > >     mdio0: mdio@0 {
> > >         reg=<0>;
> > >         ...
> > >     };
> > > 
> > >     mdio1: mdio@1 {
> > >         reg = <1>;
> > >         ...
> > >     };
> > >     ...
> > > };
> > > 
> > > When I run this with MFD's (use,)of_reg, things work as I'd expect. But
> > > I don't directly have the option to use an "mdios" container here
> > > because MFD runs "for_each_child_of_node" doesn't dig into
> > > mdios->mdio0...
> > 
> > Sorry for the delayed response. I think you can avoid creating an
> > "mdios" container node, but you need to provide some "reg" values based
> > on which the MDIO controllers can be distinguished. What is your convention
> > for "reg" values of MFD cells? Maybe pass the base address/size of this
> > device's regmap as the "reg", even if the driver itself won't use it?
> 
> No worries. Everyone is busy.
> 
> Right now it looks like this:
> 
> }, {
>     .name = "ocelot-miim0",
>     .of_compatible = "mscc,ocelot-miim",
>     .of_reg = 0,
>     .use_of_reg = true,
>     .num_resources = ARRAY_SIZE(vsc7512_miim0_resources),
>     .resources = vsc7512_miim0_resources,
> }, {
>     .name = "ocelot-miim1",
>     .of_compatible = "mscc,ocelot-miim",
>     .num_resources = ARRAY_SIZE(vsc7512_miim1_resources),
>     .of_reg = 1,
>     .use_of_reg = true,
>     .resources = vsc7512_miim1_resources,
> }, {
> 
> "0" and "1" being somewhat arbitrary... although they are named as such
> in the datasheet.
> 
> 
> So you're thinking it might look more like:
> 
> .of_reg = vsc7512_miim0_resources[0].start,
> 
> and the device tree would be:
> 
> mdio0: mdio@0x7107009c {
>     reg = <0x7107009c>;
> };

Yeah, this is what I was thinking.

> I could see that making sense. The main thing I don't like is applying
> the address-cells to every peripheral in the switch. It seems incorrect
> to have:
> 
> switch {
>     address-cells = <1>;
>     mdio0: mdio@7107009c {
>         reg = <0x7107009c>;
>     };
>     gpio: pinctrl {
>         /* No reg parameter */
>     };
> };
> 
> That's what I currently have. To my surprise it actually doesn't throw
> any warnings, which I would've expected.

I tried mangling some device trees and indeed it looks like dtc won't
warn, but I still think it's invalid to mix node address conventions
with the same #address-cells. Maybe if that wasn't the case things would
be easier.

> I could see either 0/1 or the actual base addresses making sense.
> Whichever you'd suggest.

The idea with putting the actual base addresses was that you could then
do that for all cells, like the pinctrl node, too, and they'd have a
coherent meaning.

> I've got another day or two to button things up, so it looks like I
> missed the boat for this release. This should be ready to go on day 1
> after the window.