Re: [PATCH net-next v4] net: stmmac: dwmac-qcom-ethqos: Add support for 2.5G SGMII

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Thu,  8 Feb 2024 16:47:14 +0530 Sneh Shah wrote:
> Serdes phy needs to operate at 2500 mode for 2.5G speed and 1000
> mode for 1G/100M/10M speed.
> Added changes to configure serdes phy and mac based on link speed.
> Changing serdes phy speed involves multiple register writes for
> serdes block. To avoid redundant write operations only update serdes
> phy when new speed is different.

Sounds like 2 separate changes in one patch, please split the
optimization of not writing the registers multiple times and
the 2.5G support.

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-qcom-ethqos.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-qcom-ethqos.c
> index 31631e3f89d0..6bbdbb7bef44 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-qcom-ethqos.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-qcom-ethqos.c
> @@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ struct qcom_ethqos {
>  	struct clk *link_clk;
>  	struct phy *serdes_phy;
>  	unsigned int speed;
> +	int serdes_speed;

Why signed if speed itself is unsigned?

>  	/* Enable and restart the Auto-Negotiation */
>  	if (ane)
>  		value |= GMAC_AN_CTRL_ANE | GMAC_AN_CTRL_RAN;
> +	else
> +		value &= ~GMAC_AN_CTRL_ANE;

That looks unrelated. Either a separate patch or please explain in the
commit msg why.
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