Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: dts: NSP: Enable SFP on bcm958625hr

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Mon Aug 27 2018 - 16:52:55 EST


On 08/27/2018 01:35 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> @@ -210,6 +228,17 @@
>> reg = <4>;
>> };
>>
>> + port@5 {
>> + label = "sfp";
>> + phy-mode = "sgmii";
>> + reg = <5>;
>> + sfp = <&sfp>;
>> + fixed-link {
>> + speed = <1000>;
>> + full-duplex;
>> + };
>
> Hi Florian
>
> You might want to add a comment about why you are using fixed-link and
> sgmii, which seems very odd. Is it even correct?

Probably not, this is kind of left over from before adding the sfp
phandle, but if I do remove it, and I can see the DSA slave network
device fail to initialize, likely because we destroy the PHYLINK instance.

AFAIR, when we talked about this with Russell, I did not see why we had
to comment out the following:

diff --git a/net/dsa/slave.c b/net/dsa/slave.c
index 962c4fd338ba..f3ae16dbf8d8 100644
--- a/net/dsa/slave.c
+++ b/net/dsa/slave.c
@@ -1227,7 +1227,7 @@ static int dsa_slave_phy_setup(struct net_device
*slave_dev)
netdev_err(slave_dev,
"failed to connect to port %d: %d\n",
dp->index, ret);
- phylink_destroy(dp->pl);
+ //phylink_destroy(dp->pl);
return ret;
}
}

maybe you know?
--
Florian