On 30.03.2020 20:22, Florian Fainelli wrote:
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> On 3/30/2020 9:30 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 07:01:36PM +0300, Codrin Ciubotariu wrote:
>>> Some ethernet controllers, such as cadence's macb, have an embedded MDIO.
>>> For this reason, the ethernet PHY nodes are not under an MDIO bus, but
>>> directly under the ethernet node. Since these drivers might use
>>> of_mdiobus_child_is_phy(), we should fix this function by returning false
>>> if a fixed-link is found.
>>
>> So i assume the problem occurs here:
>>
>> static int macb_mdiobus_register(struct macb *bp)
>> {
>> struct device_node *child, *np = bp->pdev->dev.of_node;
>>
>> /* Only create the PHY from the device tree if at least one PHY is
>> * described. Otherwise scan the entire MDIO bus. We do this to support
>> * old device tree that did not follow the best practices and did not
>> * describe their network PHYs.
>> */
>> for_each_available_child_of_node(np, child)
>> if (of_mdiobus_child_is_phy(child)) {
>> /* The loop increments the child refcount,
>> * decrement it before returning.
>> */
>> of_node_put(child);
>>
>> return of_mdiobus_register(bp->mii_bus, np);
>> }
>>
>> return mdiobus_register(bp->mii_bus);
>> }
>>
>> I think a better solution is
>>
>> for_each_available_child_of_node(np, child)
>> + if (of_phy_is_fixed_link(child)
>> + continue;
>> if (of_mdiobus_child_is_phy(child)) {
>> /* The loop increments the child refcount,
>> * decrement it before returning.
>> */
>> of_node_put(child);
>>
>> return of_mdiobus_register(bp->mii_bus, np);
>> }
>>
>> return mdiobus_register(bp->mii_bus);
>> }
>>
>> This problem is only an issue for macb, so keep the fix local to macb.
>
> Agree, there is no reason for of_mdiobus_child_is_phy() to be checking
> for a fixed-link. If you submit this formally:
>
> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks guys. I thought there might be other controllers that have the
PHY nodes inside the ethernet node. If not, I guess that
of_mdiobus_child_is_phy() can be restricted to be called only if the
passed device_node points to an MDIO node.
Moving the fix to macb, I think that of_phy_is_fixed_link() needs a
device_node to the ethernet node, since it also has to deal with the
legacy case in which fixed-link is a property, so it would look like
something like this:
struct device_node *child, *np = bp->pdev->dev.of_node;
+ if (of_phy_is_fixed_link(np))
+ return mdiobus_register(bp->mii_bus);
+
/* Only create the PHY from the device tree if at least one PHY is
I will send another patch shortly.
Thanks and best regards,
Codrin
