Re: [PATCH net-next v5 3/3] net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: Add support for SERDES configuration

[Siddharth Vadapalli]

Hello Paolo,

On 10/11/22 18:36, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> hello,
> 
> On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 09:52 +0530, Siddharth Vadapalli wrote:
> [...]
> 
>> +static void am65_cpsw_disable_serdes_phy(struct am65_cpsw_common *common)
>> +{
>> +	struct device_node *node, *port_np;
>> +	struct device *dev = common->dev;
>> +	const char *name = "serdes-phy";
>> +	struct phy *phy;
>> +
>> +	node = of_get_child_by_name(dev->of_node, "ethernet-ports");
>> +
>> +	for_each_child_of_node(node, port_np) {
>> +		phy = devm_of_phy_get(dev, port_np, name);
> 
> The above will try to allocate some memory and can fail. Even if the
> the following code will handle a NULL ptr, the phy will not be
> disabled.
> 
> I think it's better if you cache the serdes phy ptr in
> am65_cpsw_init_serdes_phy() and you use such reference here, without
> resorting to devm_of_phy_get().

Thank you for reviewing the patch. I plan on creating a new "struct
phy*" member named "serdes_phy" in the struct "am65_cpsw_slave_data"
defined in the file "am65-cpsw-nuss.h", and store the SerDes phy in this
member, during the execution of the am65_cpsw_init_serdes_phy()
function. Please let me know if I can proceed with this implementation.

Regards,
Siddharth.