Re: [PATCH 1/2] [v4] net: emac: emac gigabit ethernet controller driver

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Florian Fainelli wrote:
Are you utilizing the PHYLIB APIs properly? You need at least a
phy_start() to start the PHY state machine, and an adjust_link callback
to be provided to phy_connect() (or of_phy_connect()) to manage link
state changes. And that's the very basic minimum here, there could be
additional APIs that you may end up using.

There are tons of example in tree of drivers doing this, bcmgenet,
bcmsysport, tg3 etc.

Thank you.  I think I finally got phylib working, more or less.

Unfortunately, it seems I have some kind of race condition. The driver has a lot that's wrong with it, and I'm trying to fix it all. One crazy the driver does is it create a workqueue to handle a lot of the tasks that would normally be handled in the interrupt handler itself.

With phylib support, I know my driver can call phy_mac_interrupt() when it gets a link status change interrupt. I then have an .adjust_link callback which starts or stops the mac accordingly.

My problem is that I'm not really sure what adjust_link is supposed to be doing. In addition, it seems that I need to keep the workqueue running, otherwise the interface will not function. I bring the interface up, and the driver reports success, but pings do not work.

I'm getting really frustrated. The sample code isn't really helping a whole lot, because I lack a fundamental understanding of what needs to be done. None of the documentation I've read is helpful, and I don't know how to debug it.

Can you give me some advice on how to debug this?

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