Re: [PATCH] wifi: mt76: support per-band MAC addresses from OF child nodes

From: Jonas Gorski
Date: Wed Jul 26 2023 - 12:04:35 EST


Hi,

On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 at 04:53, Daniel Golle <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> With dual-band-dual-congruent front-ends which appear as two independent
> radios it is desirable to assign a per-band MAC address from device-tree,
> eg. using nvmem-cells.
> Support specifying MAC-address related properties in band-specific child
> nodes, e.g.
> mt7915@0,0 {
> reg = <0x0000 0 0 0 0>;
> #addr-cells = <1>;
> #size-cells = <0>;
>
> band@0 {
> /* 2.4 GHz */
> reg = <0>;
> nvmem-cells = <&macaddr 2>;
> nvmem-cell-names = "mac-address";
> };
>
> band@1 {
> /* 5 GHz */
> reg = <1>;
> nvmem-cells = <&macaddr 3>;
> nvmem-cell-names = "mac-address";
> };
> };
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c
> index dce851d42e083..90ee138843a55 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c
> @@ -106,7 +106,20 @@ void
> mt76_eeprom_override(struct mt76_phy *phy)
> {
> struct mt76_dev *dev = phy->dev;
> - struct device_node *np = dev->dev->of_node;
> + struct device_node *child_np, *np = dev->dev->of_node;
> + u32 reg;
> + int ret;
> +
> + for_each_child_of_node(np, child_np) {
> + ret = of_property_read_u32(child_np, "reg", &reg);
> + if (ret)
> + continue;
> +
> + if (reg == phy->band_idx) {
> + np = child_np;
> + break;

When breaking out of the loop here you still hold an additional
reference to child_np, so you need to call of_node_put() for it,
probably after calling of_get_mac_address().

> + }
> + }
>
> of_get_mac_address(np, phy->macaddr);
>

probably just add a of_node_put(child_np); here, of_node_put() seems
to be NULL safe.


Regards,
Jonas