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Colin Foster July 1, 2022, 7:26 p.m. UTC
The patch set in general is to add support for the VSC7512, and
eventually the VSC7511, VSC7513 and VSC7514 devices controlled over
SPI. Specifically this patch set enables pinctrl, serial gpio expander
access, and control of an internal and an external MDIO bus.

I have mentioned previously:
The hardware setup I'm using for development is a beaglebone black, with
jumpers from SPI0 to the microchip VSC7512 dev board. The microchip dev
board has been modified to not boot from flash, but wait for SPI. An
ethernet cable is connected from the beaglebone ethernet to port 0 of
the dev board. Network functionality will be included in a future patch set.

The device tree I'm using is included in the documentation, so I'll not
include that in this cover letter. I have exported the serial GPIOs to the
LEDs, and verified functionality via
"echo heartbeat > sys/class/leds/port0led/trigger"

/ {
	vscleds {
		compatible = "gpio-leds";
		vscled@0 {
			label = "port0led";
			gpios = <&sgpio_out1 0 0 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
			default-state = "off";
		};
		vscled@1 {
			label = "port0led1";
			gpios = <&sgpio_out1 0 1 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
			default-state = "off";
		};
[ ... ]
	};
};

[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[    0.000000] Linux version 5.19.0-rc3-00745-g30c05ffbecdc (arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #826 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 1 11:26:44 PDT 2022
...
[    1.952616] pinctrl-ocelot ocelot-pinctrl.0.auto: DMA mask not set
[    1.956522] pinctrl-ocelot ocelot-pinctrl.0.auto: driver registered
[    1.967188] pinctrl-microchip-sgpio ocelot-sgpio.1.auto: DMA mask not set
[    1.983763] mscc-miim ocelot-miim0.2.auto: DMA mask not set
[    3.020687] mscc-miim ocelot-miim1.3.auto: DMA mask not set


I only have hardware to test the last patch, so any testers are welcome.
I've been extra cautious about the ocelot_regmap_from_resource helper
function, both before and after the last patch. I accidentally broke it
in the past and would like to avoid doing so again.


RFC history:
v1 (accidentally named vN)
	* Initial architecture. Not functional
	* General concepts laid out

v2
	* Near functional. No CPU port communication, but control over all
	external ports
	* Cleaned up regmap implementation from v1

v3
	* Functional
	* Shared MDIO transactions routed through mdio-mscc-miim
	* CPU / NPI port enabled by way of vsc7512_enable_npi_port /
	felix->info->enable_npi_port
	* NPI port tagging functional - Requires a CPU port driver that supports
	frames of 1520 bytes. Verified with a patch to the cpsw driver

v4
    * Functional
    * Device tree fixes
    * Add hooks for pinctrl-ocelot - some functionality by way of sysfs
    * Add hooks for pinctrl-microsemi-sgpio - not yet fully functional
    * Remove lynx_pcs interface for a generic phylink_pcs. The goal here
    is to have an ocelot_pcs that will work for each configuration of
    every port.

v5
    * Restructured to MFD
    * Several commits were split out, submitted, and accepted
    * pinctrl-ocelot believed to be fully functional (requires commits
    from the linux-pinctrl tree)
    * External MDIO bus believed to be fully functional

v6
    * Applied several suggestions from the last RFC from Lee Jones. I
      hope I didn't miss anything.
    * Clean up MFD core - SPI interaction. They no longer use callbacks.
    * regmaps get registered to the child device, and don't attempt to
      get shared. It seems if a regmap is to be shared, that should be
      solved with syscon, not dev or mfd.

v7
    * Applied as much as I could from Lee and Vladimir's suggestions. As
      always, the feedback is greatly appreciated!
    * Remove "ocelot_spi" container complication
    * Move internal MDIO bus from ocelot_ext to MFD, with a devicetree
      change to match
    * Add initial HSIO support
    * Switch to IORESOURCE_REG for resource definitions

v8
    * Applied another round of suggestions from Lee and Vladimir
    * Utilize regmap bus reads, which speeds bulk transfers up by an
      order of magnitude
    * Add two additional patches to utilize phylink_generic_validate
    * Changed GPL V2 to GPL in licenses where applicable (checkpatch)
    * Remove initial hsio/serdes changes from the RFC

v9
    * Submitting as a PATCH instead of an RFC
    * Remove switch functionality - will be a separate patch set
    * Remove Kconfig tristate module options
    * Another round of suggestions from Lee, Vladimir, and Andy. Many
      thanks!
    * Add documentation
    * Update maintainers

v10
    * Fix warming by removing unused function

v11
    * Suggestions from Rob and Andy. Thanks!
    * Add pinctrl module functionality back and fixing those features
    * Fix aarch64 compiler error

v12
    * Suggestions from Vladimir, Andy, Randy, and Rob. Thanks as always!
    * Utilize dev_get_regmap to clean up interfaces
    * MFD_OCELOT can be a module

Colin Foster (9):
  mfd: ocelot: add helper to get regmap from a resource
  net: mdio: mscc-miim: add ability to be used in a non-mmio
    configuration
  pinctrl: ocelot: allow pinctrl-ocelot to be loaded as a module
  pinctrl: ocelot: add ability to be used in a non-mmio configuration
  pinctrl: microchip-sgpio: allow sgpio driver to be used as a module
  pinctrl: microchip-sgpio: add ability to be used in a non-mmio
    configuration
  resource: add define macro for register address resources
  dt-bindings: mfd: ocelot: add bindings for VSC7512
  mfd: ocelot: add support for the vsc7512 chip via spi

 .../devicetree/bindings/mfd/mscc,ocelot.yaml  | 160 +++++++++
 MAINTAINERS                                   |   7 +
 drivers/mfd/Kconfig                           |  18 +
 drivers/mfd/Makefile                          |   2 +
 drivers/mfd/ocelot-core.c                     | 164 +++++++++
 drivers/mfd/ocelot-spi.c                      | 312 ++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/mfd/ocelot.h                          |  28 ++
 drivers/net/mdio/mdio-mscc-miim.c             |  34 +-
 drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig                       |   4 +-
 drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-microchip-sgpio.c     |  14 +-
 drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-ocelot.c              |  15 +-
 include/linux/ioport.h                        |   5 +
 include/linux/mfd/ocelot.h                    |  51 +++
 13 files changed, 772 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/mscc,ocelot.yaml
 create mode 100644 drivers/mfd/ocelot-core.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/mfd/ocelot-spi.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/mfd/ocelot.h
 create mode 100644 include/linux/mfd/ocelot.h

Comments

Andy Shevchenko July 1, 2022, 8:41 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 10:35 PM Colin Foster
<colin.foster@in-advantage.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 10:23:36PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 9:26 PM Colin Foster
> > <colin.foster@in-advantage.com> wrote:

...

> > > +       res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, index);
> > > +       if (res) {
> > > +               regs = devm_ioremap_resource(dev, res);
> > > +               if (IS_ERR(regs))
> > > +                       return ERR_CAST(regs);
> >
> > Why can't it be devm_platform_get_and_ioremap_resource() here?
>
> It can... but it invokes prints of "invalid resource" during
> initialization.
>
> Here it was implied that I should break the function call out:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20220628081709.829811-2-colin.foster@in-advantage.com/#24917551

Perhaps a comment in the code, so nobody will try to optimize this in
the future.

> > > +               return devm_regmap_init_mmio(dev, regs, config);
> > > +       }

...

> > > +       return (map) ? map : ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
> >
> > Too many parentheses.
> >
> > Also you may use short form of ternary operator:
> >
> >        return map ?: ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
>
> Agreed, and I didn't know about that operator. When Vladimir suggested
> it I thought it was a typo. I should've known better.

It's easy to remember by thinking of

"X ?: Y" as "X _or_ Y".
Jakub Kicinski July 2, 2022, 3:02 a.m. UTC | #2
On Fri,  1 Jul 2022 12:26:09 -0700 Colin Foster wrote:
> The VSC7512 is a networking chip that contains several peripherals. Many of
> these peripherals are currently supported by the VSC7513 and VSC7514 chips,
> but those run on an internal CPU. The VSC7512 lacks this CPU, and must be
> controlled externally.
> 
> Utilize the existing drivers by referencing the chip as an MFD. Add support
> for the two MDIO buses, the internal phys, pinctrl, and serial GPIO.

allmodconfig is not happy, I didn't spot that being mentioned as
expected:

ERROR: modpost: "ocelot_spi_init_regmap" [drivers/mfd/ocelot-core.ko] undefined!
WARNING: modpost: module ocelot-spi uses symbol ocelot_chip_reset from namespace MFD_OCELOT, but does not import it.
WARNING: modpost: module ocelot-spi uses symbol ocelot_core_init from namespace MFD_OCELOT, but does not import it.
make[2]: *** [../scripts/Makefile.modpost:128: modules-only.symvers] Error 1
make[1]: *** [/home/nipa/net-next/Makefile:1757: modules] Error 2
Colin Foster July 2, 2022, 4:26 p.m. UTC | #3
On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 08:02:41PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri,  1 Jul 2022 12:26:09 -0700 Colin Foster wrote:
> > The VSC7512 is a networking chip that contains several peripherals. Many of
> > these peripherals are currently supported by the VSC7513 and VSC7514 chips,
> > but those run on an internal CPU. The VSC7512 lacks this CPU, and must be
> > controlled externally.
> > 
> > Utilize the existing drivers by referencing the chip as an MFD. Add support
> > for the two MDIO buses, the internal phys, pinctrl, and serial GPIO.
> 
> allmodconfig is not happy, I didn't spot that being mentioned as
> expected:
> 
> ERROR: modpost: "ocelot_spi_init_regmap" [drivers/mfd/ocelot-core.ko] undefined!
> WARNING: modpost: module ocelot-spi uses symbol ocelot_chip_reset from namespace MFD_OCELOT, but does not import it.
> WARNING: modpost: module ocelot-spi uses symbol ocelot_core_init from namespace MFD_OCELOT, but does not import it.
> make[2]: *** [../scripts/Makefile.modpost:128: modules-only.symvers] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [/home/nipa/net-next/Makefile:1757: modules] Error 2

Yikes. I'll button this up. I'm surprised that I need to import the
namespace of my own module... but I don't have a strong enough
understanding of what all is going on.

Also, allmodconfig never compiles for me, so I can't really test it:

make W=1 ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- -j$(nproc)
...
arch/arm/vdso/vgettimeofday.c:10:5: error: no previous prototype for ‘__vdso_clock_gettime’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
   10 | int __vdso_clock_gettime(clockid_t clock,
      |     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
arch/arm/vdso/vgettimeofday.c:16:5: error: no previous prototype for ‘__vdso_clock_gettime64’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
   16 | int __vdso_clock_gettime64(clockid_t clock,
      |     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
arch/arm/vdso/vgettimeofday.c:22:5: error: no previous prototype for ‘__vdso_gettimeofday’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
   22 | int __vdso_gettimeofday(struct __kernel_old_timeval *tv,
      |     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
arch/arm/vdso/vgettimeofday.c:28:5: error: no previous prototype for ‘__vdso_clock_getres’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
   28 | int __vdso_clock_getres(clockid_t clock_id,

I'll try it without cross-compile and see if I have better luck.
Rob Herring (Arm) July 5, 2022, 8:24 p.m. UTC | #4
On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 12:26:00PM -0700, Colin Foster wrote:
> The patch set in general is to add support for the VSC7512, and
> eventually the VSC7511, VSC7513 and VSC7514 devices controlled over
> SPI. Specifically this patch set enables pinctrl, serial gpio expander
> access, and control of an internal and an external MDIO bus.
> 
> I have mentioned previously:
> The hardware setup I'm using for development is a beaglebone black, with
> jumpers from SPI0 to the microchip VSC7512 dev board. The microchip dev
> board has been modified to not boot from flash, but wait for SPI. An
> ethernet cable is connected from the beaglebone ethernet to port 0 of
> the dev board. Network functionality will be included in a future patch set.
> 
> The device tree I'm using is included in the documentation, so I'll not
> include that in this cover letter. I have exported the serial GPIOs to the
> LEDs, and verified functionality via
> "echo heartbeat > sys/class/leds/port0led/trigger"
> 
> / {
> 	vscleds {
> 		compatible = "gpio-leds";
> 		vscled@0 {
> 			label = "port0led";
> 			gpios = <&sgpio_out1 0 0 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
> 			default-state = "off";
> 		};
> 		vscled@1 {
> 			label = "port0led1";
> 			gpios = <&sgpio_out1 0 1 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
> 			default-state = "off";
> 		};
> [ ... ]
> 	};
> };
> 
> [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
> [    0.000000] Linux version 5.19.0-rc3-00745-g30c05ffbecdc (arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #826 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 1 11:26:44 PDT 2022
> ...
> [    1.952616] pinctrl-ocelot ocelot-pinctrl.0.auto: DMA mask not set
> [    1.956522] pinctrl-ocelot ocelot-pinctrl.0.auto: driver registered
> [    1.967188] pinctrl-microchip-sgpio ocelot-sgpio.1.auto: DMA mask not set
> [    1.983763] mscc-miim ocelot-miim0.2.auto: DMA mask not set
> [    3.020687] mscc-miim ocelot-miim1.3.auto: DMA mask not set
> 
> 
> I only have hardware to test the last patch, so any testers are welcome.
> I've been extra cautious about the ocelot_regmap_from_resource helper
> function, both before and after the last patch. I accidentally broke it
> in the past and would like to avoid doing so again.
> 
> 
> RFC history:
> v1 (accidentally named vN)
> 	* Initial architecture. Not functional
> 	* General concepts laid out
> 
> v2
> 	* Near functional. No CPU port communication, but control over all
> 	external ports
> 	* Cleaned up regmap implementation from v1
> 
> v3
> 	* Functional
> 	* Shared MDIO transactions routed through mdio-mscc-miim
> 	* CPU / NPI port enabled by way of vsc7512_enable_npi_port /
> 	felix->info->enable_npi_port
> 	* NPI port tagging functional - Requires a CPU port driver that supports
> 	frames of 1520 bytes. Verified with a patch to the cpsw driver
> 
> v4
>     * Functional
>     * Device tree fixes
>     * Add hooks for pinctrl-ocelot - some functionality by way of sysfs
>     * Add hooks for pinctrl-microsemi-sgpio - not yet fully functional
>     * Remove lynx_pcs interface for a generic phylink_pcs. The goal here
>     is to have an ocelot_pcs that will work for each configuration of
>     every port.
> 
> v5
>     * Restructured to MFD
>     * Several commits were split out, submitted, and accepted
>     * pinctrl-ocelot believed to be fully functional (requires commits
>     from the linux-pinctrl tree)
>     * External MDIO bus believed to be fully functional
> 
> v6
>     * Applied several suggestions from the last RFC from Lee Jones. I
>       hope I didn't miss anything.
>     * Clean up MFD core - SPI interaction. They no longer use callbacks.
>     * regmaps get registered to the child device, and don't attempt to
>       get shared. It seems if a regmap is to be shared, that should be
>       solved with syscon, not dev or mfd.
> 
> v7
>     * Applied as much as I could from Lee and Vladimir's suggestions. As
>       always, the feedback is greatly appreciated!
>     * Remove "ocelot_spi" container complication
>     * Move internal MDIO bus from ocelot_ext to MFD, with a devicetree
>       change to match
>     * Add initial HSIO support
>     * Switch to IORESOURCE_REG for resource definitions
> 
> v8
>     * Applied another round of suggestions from Lee and Vladimir
>     * Utilize regmap bus reads, which speeds bulk transfers up by an
>       order of magnitude
>     * Add two additional patches to utilize phylink_generic_validate
>     * Changed GPL V2 to GPL in licenses where applicable (checkpatch)
>     * Remove initial hsio/serdes changes from the RFC
> 
> v9
>     * Submitting as a PATCH instead of an RFC
>     * Remove switch functionality - will be a separate patch set
>     * Remove Kconfig tristate module options
>     * Another round of suggestions from Lee, Vladimir, and Andy. Many
>       thanks!
>     * Add documentation
>     * Update maintainers
> 
> v10
>     * Fix warming by removing unused function
> 
> v11
>     * Suggestions from Rob and Andy. Thanks!
>     * Add pinctrl module functionality back and fixing those features
>     * Fix aarch64 compiler error
> 
> v12
>     * Suggestions from Vladimir, Andy, Randy, and Rob. Thanks as always!

Not all that useful as a changelog. I have no idea what I told you as 
that was probably 100s of reviews ago. When writing changelogs for patch 
revisions, you need to describe what changed. And it's best to put that 
into the relevant patch. IOW, I want to know what I said to change so I 
know what I need to look at again in particular.

And now that I've found v11, 'suggestions from Rob' isn't really 
accurate as you fixed errors reported by running the tools.

Rob
Colin Foster July 5, 2022, 8:30 p.m. UTC | #5
On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 02:24:22PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 12:26:00PM -0700, Colin Foster wrote:
> > The patch set in general is to add support for the VSC7512, and
> > eventually the VSC7511, VSC7513 and VSC7514 devices controlled over
> > SPI. Specifically this patch set enables pinctrl, serial gpio expander
> > access, and control of an internal and an external MDIO bus.
> > 
> > I have mentioned previously:
> > The hardware setup I'm using for development is a beaglebone black, with
> > jumpers from SPI0 to the microchip VSC7512 dev board. The microchip dev
> > board has been modified to not boot from flash, but wait for SPI. An
> > ethernet cable is connected from the beaglebone ethernet to port 0 of
> > the dev board. Network functionality will be included in a future patch set.
> > 
> > The device tree I'm using is included in the documentation, so I'll not
> > include that in this cover letter. I have exported the serial GPIOs to the
> > LEDs, and verified functionality via
> > "echo heartbeat > sys/class/leds/port0led/trigger"
> > 
> > / {
> > 	vscleds {
> > 		compatible = "gpio-leds";
> > 		vscled@0 {
> > 			label = "port0led";
> > 			gpios = <&sgpio_out1 0 0 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
> > 			default-state = "off";
> > 		};
> > 		vscled@1 {
> > 			label = "port0led1";
> > 			gpios = <&sgpio_out1 0 1 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
> > 			default-state = "off";
> > 		};
> > [ ... ]
> > 	};
> > };
> > 
> > [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
> > [    0.000000] Linux version 5.19.0-rc3-00745-g30c05ffbecdc (arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #826 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 1 11:26:44 PDT 2022
> > ...
> > [    1.952616] pinctrl-ocelot ocelot-pinctrl.0.auto: DMA mask not set
> > [    1.956522] pinctrl-ocelot ocelot-pinctrl.0.auto: driver registered
> > [    1.967188] pinctrl-microchip-sgpio ocelot-sgpio.1.auto: DMA mask not set
> > [    1.983763] mscc-miim ocelot-miim0.2.auto: DMA mask not set
> > [    3.020687] mscc-miim ocelot-miim1.3.auto: DMA mask not set
> > 
> > 
> > I only have hardware to test the last patch, so any testers are welcome.
> > I've been extra cautious about the ocelot_regmap_from_resource helper
> > function, both before and after the last patch. I accidentally broke it
> > in the past and would like to avoid doing so again.
> > 
> > 
> > RFC history:
> > v1 (accidentally named vN)
> > 	* Initial architecture. Not functional
> > 	* General concepts laid out
> > 
> > v2
> > 	* Near functional. No CPU port communication, but control over all
> > 	external ports
> > 	* Cleaned up regmap implementation from v1
> > 
> > v3
> > 	* Functional
> > 	* Shared MDIO transactions routed through mdio-mscc-miim
> > 	* CPU / NPI port enabled by way of vsc7512_enable_npi_port /
> > 	felix->info->enable_npi_port
> > 	* NPI port tagging functional - Requires a CPU port driver that supports
> > 	frames of 1520 bytes. Verified with a patch to the cpsw driver
> > 
> > v4
> >     * Functional
> >     * Device tree fixes
> >     * Add hooks for pinctrl-ocelot - some functionality by way of sysfs
> >     * Add hooks for pinctrl-microsemi-sgpio - not yet fully functional
> >     * Remove lynx_pcs interface for a generic phylink_pcs. The goal here
> >     is to have an ocelot_pcs that will work for each configuration of
> >     every port.
> > 
> > v5
> >     * Restructured to MFD
> >     * Several commits were split out, submitted, and accepted
> >     * pinctrl-ocelot believed to be fully functional (requires commits
> >     from the linux-pinctrl tree)
> >     * External MDIO bus believed to be fully functional
> > 
> > v6
> >     * Applied several suggestions from the last RFC from Lee Jones. I
> >       hope I didn't miss anything.
> >     * Clean up MFD core - SPI interaction. They no longer use callbacks.
> >     * regmaps get registered to the child device, and don't attempt to
> >       get shared. It seems if a regmap is to be shared, that should be
> >       solved with syscon, not dev or mfd.
> > 
> > v7
> >     * Applied as much as I could from Lee and Vladimir's suggestions. As
> >       always, the feedback is greatly appreciated!
> >     * Remove "ocelot_spi" container complication
> >     * Move internal MDIO bus from ocelot_ext to MFD, with a devicetree
> >       change to match
> >     * Add initial HSIO support
> >     * Switch to IORESOURCE_REG for resource definitions
> > 
> > v8
> >     * Applied another round of suggestions from Lee and Vladimir
> >     * Utilize regmap bus reads, which speeds bulk transfers up by an
> >       order of magnitude
> >     * Add two additional patches to utilize phylink_generic_validate
> >     * Changed GPL V2 to GPL in licenses where applicable (checkpatch)
> >     * Remove initial hsio/serdes changes from the RFC
> > 
> > v9
> >     * Submitting as a PATCH instead of an RFC
> >     * Remove switch functionality - will be a separate patch set
> >     * Remove Kconfig tristate module options
> >     * Another round of suggestions from Lee, Vladimir, and Andy. Many
> >       thanks!
> >     * Add documentation
> >     * Update maintainers
> > 
> > v10
> >     * Fix warming by removing unused function
> > 
> > v11
> >     * Suggestions from Rob and Andy. Thanks!
> >     * Add pinctrl module functionality back and fixing those features
> >     * Fix aarch64 compiler error
> > 
> > v12
> >     * Suggestions from Vladimir, Andy, Randy, and Rob. Thanks as always!
> 
> Not all that useful as a changelog. I have no idea what I told you as 
> that was probably 100s of reviews ago. When writing changelogs for patch 
> revisions, you need to describe what changed. And it's best to put that 
> into the relevant patch. IOW, I want to know what I said to change so I 
> know what I need to look at again in particular.
> 
> And now that I've found v11, 'suggestions from Rob' isn't really 
> accurate as you fixed errors reported by running the tools.
> 
> Rob

Good point - I'll be more clear going forward.
Vladimir Oltean July 5, 2022, 10:56 p.m. UTC | #6
On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 01:04:32AM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> You got some feedback at v11 (I believe) from Jakub about reposting too
> soon. The phrasing was relatively rude and I'm not sure that you got the
> central idea right. Large patch sets are generally less welcome when
> submitted back to back compared to small ones, but they still need to be
> posted frequent enough to not lose reviewers' attention. And small
> fixups to fix a build as module are not going to make a huge difference
> when reviewing, so it's best not to dig your own grave by gratuitously
> bumping the version number just for a compilation fix. Again, replying
> to your own patch saying "X was supposed to be Y, otherwise please go on
> reviewing", may help.

I hope I'm not coming off as a know-it-all by saying this, and I didn't
intend to make you feel bad. Ask me how do I know, and the answer will
be by making the same mistakes, of course.

Not sure if he's already on your radar, but you can watch and analyze
the patches submitted by Russell King. For example the recent patch set
for making phylink accept DSA CPU port OF nodes with no fixed-link or
phy-handle. Perfect timing in resubmitting a new series when one was
due, even when the previous one got no feedback whatsoever (which seems
to be the hardest situation to deal with). You need to be able to take
decisions even when you're doing so on your own, and much of that comes
with experience.
Colin Foster July 6, 2022, 4:34 a.m. UTC | #7
On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 10:56:26PM +0000, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 01:04:32AM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > You got some feedback at v11 (I believe) from Jakub about reposting too
> > soon. The phrasing was relatively rude and I'm not sure that you got the
> > central idea right. Large patch sets are generally less welcome when
> > submitted back to back compared to small ones, but they still need to be
> > posted frequent enough to not lose reviewers' attention. And small
> > fixups to fix a build as module are not going to make a huge difference
> > when reviewing, so it's best not to dig your own grave by gratuitously
> > bumping the version number just for a compilation fix. Again, replying
> > to your own patch saying "X was supposed to be Y, otherwise please go on
> > reviewing", may help.
> 
> I hope I'm not coming off as a know-it-all by saying this, and I didn't
> intend to make you feel bad. Ask me how do I know, and the answer will
> be by making the same mistakes, of course.

No worries, but thanks for the concern. I understand the v10 fiasco
was my fault - I'm alright with being put in my place. This is very much
a learning experience for me, so all this feedback helps.

And I also am recognizing a difference being past the RFC stage. The
changes are becoming more subtle, while the initial RFCs had pretty
significant rewrites / restructures. I'll be mindful of this going
forward, and call out any changes I come across in self-review.

> 
> Not sure if he's already on your radar, but you can watch and analyze
> the patches submitted by Russell King. For example the recent patch set
> for making phylink accept DSA CPU port OF nodes with no fixed-link or
> phy-handle. Perfect timing in resubmitting a new series when one was
> due, even when the previous one got no feedback whatsoever (which seems
> to be the hardest situation to deal with). You need to be able to take
> decisions even when you're doing so on your own, and much of that comes
> with experience.

I see the cadence of every 5-7 days or so seems to be the sweet spot. I
had thought this v13 would have been long enough since v12 (4 days) but
that seems to have been incorrect (understanding it was over a weekend).
I'll be more mindful of this in the future.