* Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [150826 10:40]:
> Hi Tony,
>
> On 08/26/2015 10:04 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >* Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [150817 13:48]:
> >>Commit 0b50dc4fc971 ("Convert smsc911x to use ACPI as well as DT") makes
> >>the call to smsc911x_probe_config() unconditional, and no longer fails if
> >>there is no device node. device_get_phy_mode() is called unconditionally,
> >>and if there is no phy node configured returns an error code. This error
> >>code is assigned to phy_interface, and interpreted elsewhere in the code
> >>as valid phy mode. This in turn causes qemu to crash when running a
> >>variant of realview_pb_defconfig.
> >>
> >> qemu: hardware error: lan9118_read: Bad reg 0x86
> >>
> >>Fixes: 0b50dc4fc971 ("Convert smsc911x to use ACPI as well as DT")
> >>Cc: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@xxxxxxx>
> >>Cc Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>---
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c | 7 ++++++-
> >> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >>diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c
> >>index 0f21aa3bb537..34f97684506b 100644
> >>--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c
> >>+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c
> >>@@ -2367,12 +2367,17 @@ static const struct smsc911x_ops shifted_smsc911x_ops = {
> >> static int smsc911x_probe_config(struct smsc911x_platform_config *config,
> >> struct device *dev)
> >> {
> >>+ int phy_interface;
> >> u32 width = 0;
> >>
> >> if (!dev)
> >> return -ENODEV;
> >>
> >>- config->phy_interface = device_get_phy_mode(dev);
> >>+ phy_interface = device_get_phy_mode(dev);
> >>+ if (phy_interface < 0)
> >>+ return phy_interface;
> >>+
> >>+ config->phy_interface = phy_interface;
> >>
> >> device_get_mac_address(dev, config->mac, ETH_ALEN);
> >
> >Looks like this change makes at least omap boards using smsc911x
> >fail with -22 for me in Linux next.
> >
>
> What do you see if you revert my patch ? It should assign -22, or its
> unsigned representation, to phy_interface, which isn't such a good idea
> either.
If I revert patch "smsc911x: Fix crash seen if neither ACPI nor OF is
configured or used" things work as just assign config->phy_interface
directly without returning early. It's -22 in that case also.
> >Do any of the the device tree configured smsc911x devices actually
> >have a phy configured?
> >
> Good question, and beats me. Looking into the original code,
> it didn't check for an error return from of_get_phy_mode() either,
> and thus _would_ dutifully assign the error code to phy_interface.
> Wonder how was this supposed to work to start with.
>
> I'll do some debugging and try to find out what exactly is going on.
Looks like adding "smsc,force-internal-phy" to omap-gpmc-smsc9221.dtsi
does not help. Somehow the default behavior is now different.
Regards,
Tony
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