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<title>net: phylink: add support for polling MAC PCS</title>
<updated>2020-01-06T07:22:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
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<published>2020-01-06T01:34:11+00:00</published>
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Some MAC PCS blocks are unable to provide interrupts when their status
changes. As we already have support in phylink for polling status, use
this to provide a hook for MACs to enable polling mode.

The patch idea was picked up from Russell King's suggestion on the macb
phylink patch thread here [0] but the implementation was changed.
Instead of introducing a new phylink_start_poll() function, which would
make the implementation cumbersome for common PHYLINK implementations
for multiple types of devices, like DSA, just add a boolean property to
the phylink_config structure, which is just as backwards-compatible.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/16/603

Suggested-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Some MAC PCS blocks are unable to provide interrupts when their status
changes. As we already have support in phylink for polling status, use
this to provide a hook for MACs to enable polling mode.

The patch idea was picked up from Russell King's suggestion on the macb
phylink patch thread here [0] but the implementation was changed.
Instead of introducing a new phylink_start_poll() function, which would
make the implementation cumbersome for common PHYLINK implementations
for multiple types of devices, like DSA, just add a boolean property to
the phylink_config structure, which is just as backwards-compatible.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/16/603

Suggested-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: phylink: rename mac_link_state() op to mac_pcs_get_state()</title>
<updated>2019-11-24T00:13:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-21T00:36:22+00:00</published>
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Rename the mac_link_state() method to mac_pcs_get_state() to make it
clear that it should be returning the MACs PCS current state, which
is used for inband negotiation rather than just reading back what the
MAC has been configured for. Update the documentation to explicitly
mention that this is for inband.

We drop the return value as well; most of phylink doesn't check the
return value and it is not clear what it should do on error - instead
arrange for state-&gt;link to be false.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
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Rename the mac_link_state() method to mac_pcs_get_state() to make it
clear that it should be returning the MACs PCS current state, which
is used for inband negotiation rather than just reading back what the
MAC has been configured for. Update the documentation to explicitly
mention that this is for inband.

We drop the return value as well; most of phylink doesn't check the
return value and it is not clear what it should do on error - instead
arrange for state-&gt;link to be false.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2019-07-09T02:48:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-09T02:48:57+00:00</published>
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Two cases of overlapping changes, nothing fancy.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Two cases of overlapping changes, nothing fancy.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: phylink: further documentation clarifications</title>
<updated>2019-06-28T21:42:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-25T09:44:33+00:00</published>
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Clarify the validate() behaviour in a few cases which weren't mentioned
in the documentation, but which are necessary for users to get the
correct behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Clarify the validate() behaviour in a few cases which weren't mentioned
in the documentation, but which are necessary for users to get the
correct behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2019-06-18T03:20:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-18T02:48:13+00:00</published>
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Honestly all the conflicts were simple overlapping changes,
nothing really interesting to report.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Honestly all the conflicts were simple overlapping changes,
nothing really interesting to report.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: phylink: further mac_config documentation improvements</title>
<updated>2019-06-14T16:28:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King - ARM Linux admin</name>
<email>linux@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-14T10:37:49+00:00</published>
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While reviewing the DPAA2 work, it has become apparent that we need
better documentation about which members of the phylink link state
structure are valid in the mac_config call.  Improve this
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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While reviewing the DPAA2 work, it has become apparent that we need
better documentation about which members of the phylink link state
structure are valid in the mac_config call.  Improve this
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: phylink: Add PHYLINK_DEV operation type</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T04:48:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ioana Ciornei</name>
<email>ioana.ciornei@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-28T17:38:13+00:00</published>
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In the PHYLINK_DEV operation type, the PHYLINK infrastructure can work
without an attached net_device. For printing usecases, instead, a struct
device * should be passed to PHYLINK using the phylink_config structure.

Also, netif_carrier_* calls ar guarded by the presence of a valid
net_device. When using the PHYLINK_DEV operation type, we cannot check
link status using the netif_carrier_ok() API so instead, keep an
internal state of the MAC and call mac_link_{down,up} only when the link
changed.

Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei &lt;ioana.ciornei@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In the PHYLINK_DEV operation type, the PHYLINK infrastructure can work
without an attached net_device. For printing usecases, instead, a struct
device * should be passed to PHYLINK using the phylink_config structure.

Also, netif_carrier_* calls ar guarded by the presence of a valid
net_device. When using the PHYLINK_DEV operation type, we cannot check
link status using the netif_carrier_ok() API so instead, keep an
internal state of the MAC and call mac_link_{down,up} only when the link
changed.

Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei &lt;ioana.ciornei@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: phylink: Add struct phylink_config to PHYLINK API</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T04:48:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ioana Ciornei</name>
<email>ioana.ciornei@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-28T17:38:12+00:00</published>
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The phylink_config structure will encapsulate a pointer to a struct
device and the operation type requested for this instance of PHYLINK.
This patch does not make any functional changes, it just transitions the
PHYLINK internals and all its users to the new API.

A pointer to a phylink_config structure will be passed to
phylink_create() instead of the net_device directly. Also, the same
phylink_config pointer will be passed back to all phylink_mac_ops
callbacks instead of the net_device. Using this mechanism, a PHYLINK
user can get the original net_device using a structure such as
'to_net_dev(config-&gt;dev)' or directly the structure containing the
phylink_config using a container_of call.

At the moment, only the PHYLINK_NETDEV is defined as a valid operation
type for PHYLINK. In this mode, a valid reference to a struct device
linked to the original net_device should be passed to PHYLINK through
the phylink_config structure.

This API changes is mainly driven by the necessity of adding a new
operation type in PHYLINK that disconnects the phy_device from the
net_device and also works when the net_device is lacking.

Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei &lt;ioana.ciornei@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maxime Chevallier &lt;maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com&gt;
Tested-by: Maxime Chevallier &lt;maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The phylink_config structure will encapsulate a pointer to a struct
device and the operation type requested for this instance of PHYLINK.
This patch does not make any functional changes, it just transitions the
PHYLINK internals and all its users to the new API.

A pointer to a phylink_config structure will be passed to
phylink_create() instead of the net_device directly. Also, the same
phylink_config pointer will be passed back to all phylink_mac_ops
callbacks instead of the net_device. Using this mechanism, a PHYLINK
user can get the original net_device using a structure such as
'to_net_dev(config-&gt;dev)' or directly the structure containing the
phylink_config using a container_of call.

At the moment, only the PHYLINK_NETDEV is defined as a valid operation
type for PHYLINK. In this mode, a valid reference to a struct device
linked to the original net_device should be passed to PHYLINK through
the phylink_config structure.

This API changes is mainly driven by the necessity of adding a new
operation type in PHYLINK that disconnects the phy_device from the
net_device and also works when the net_device is lacking.

Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei &lt;ioana.ciornei@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maxime Chevallier &lt;maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com&gt;
Tested-by: Maxime Chevallier &lt;maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: phylink: update mac_config() documentation</title>
<updated>2019-02-24T20:39:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-22T11:31:41+00:00</published>
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A detail for mac_config() had been missed in the documentation for the
method - it is expected that the method will update the MAC to the
settings, rather than completely reprogram the MAC on each call.
Update the documentation for this method for this detail.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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A detail for mac_config() had been missed in the documentation for the
method - it is expected that the method will update the MAC to the
settings, rather than completely reprogram the MAC on each call.
Update the documentation for this method for this detail.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: phylink: add phylink_init_eee() helper</title>
<updated>2019-02-12T17:22:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-11T11:46:06+00:00</published>
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Provide phylink_init_eee() to allow MAC drivers to initialise PHY EEE
from within the ethtool set_eee() method.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Provide phylink_init_eee() to allow MAC drivers to initialise PHY EEE
from within the ethtool set_eee() method.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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