[PATCH net-next 0/6] net: ethernet: fs_enet: Cleanup and phylink conversion

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Wed Aug 28 20:10:07 AEST 2024


Le 28/08/2024 à 11:50, Maxime Chevallier a écrit :
> This series aims at improving the fs_enet code and port it's PHY
> handling from direct phylib access to using phylink instead.
> 
> Although this driver is quite old, there are still some users out there,
> running an upstream kernel. The development I'm doing is on an MPC885
> device, which uses fs_enet, as well as a MPC866-based device.
> 
> The main motivation for that work is to eventually support ethernet interfaces
> that have more than one PHY attached to the MAC upstream, for which
> phylink might be a pre-requisite. That work isn't submitted yet, and the
> final solution might not even require phylink.
> 
> Regardless, I do believe that this series is relevant, as it does some
> cleanup to the driver, and having it use phylink brings some nice
> improvements as it simplifies the DT parsing, fixed-link handling and
> removes code in that driver that predates even phylib itself.
> 
> The series is structured in the following way :
> 
> - Patches 1 and 2 are cosmetic changes. The former converts the source
>    to SPDX, while the latter has fs_enet-main.c pass checkpatch. Patch 2 is
>    really not mandatory in this series, and I understand that this isn't
>    the easiest or most pleasant patch to review. OTOH, this allows
>    getting a clean checkpatch output for the main part of the driver.
> 
> - Patches 3, 4 and 5 drop some leftovers from back when the driver didn't
>    use phylib, and brings the use of phylib macros.
> 
> - Patch 6 is the actual phylink port, which also cleans the bits of code
>    that become irrelevant when using phylink.
> 
> Testing was done on an MPC866 and MPC885, any test on other platforms
> that use fs_enet are more than welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Maxime
> 
> Maxime Chevallier (6):
>    net: ethernet: fs_enet: convert to SPDX
>    net: ethernet: fs_enet: cosmetic cleanups
>    net: ethernet: fs_enet: drop the .adjust_link custom fs_ops
>    net: ethernet: fs_enet: drop unused phy_info and mii_if_info
>    net: ethernet: fs_enet: fcc: use macros for speed and duplex values
>    net: ethernet: fs_enet: phylink conversion

For the series,

Acked-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu> # LINUX FOR 
POWERPC EMBEDDED PPC8XX AND PPC83XX

> 
>   .../net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/Kconfig    |   2 +-
>   .../ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c | 421 ++++++++----------
>   .../net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/fs_enet.h  |  24 +-
>   .../net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/mac-fcc.c  |  16 +-
>   .../net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/mac-fec.c  |  14 +-
>   .../net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/mac-scc.c  |  10 +-
>   .../ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/mii-bitbang.c  |   5 +-
>   .../net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/mii-fec.c  |   5 +-
>   8 files changed, 209 insertions(+), 288 deletions(-)
> 


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