On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 06:09:48PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > This patch reverts commit 3243ff2a05ec ("net: ethernet: davinci_emac: > Deduplicate bus_find_device() by name matching") and adds a comment > which should stop anyone from reintroducing the same "fix" in the future. > > We can't use bus_find_device_by_name() here because the device name is > not guaranteed to be 'davinci_mdio'. On some systems it can be > 'davinci_mdio.0' so we need to use strncmp() against the first part of > the string to correctly match it. > > Fixes: 3243ff2a05ec ("net: ethernet: davinci_emac: Deduplicate bus_find_device() by name matching") > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> This is still Acked-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx> given that my patch which is reverted here seems to have been incorrect. Feel free to keep the ack if you respin in response to Florian Fainelli's comments. Thanks, Lukas > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c | 15 +++++++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c > index 06d7c9e4dcda..a1a6445b5a7e 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c > @@ -1385,6 +1385,11 @@ static int emac_devioctl(struct net_device *ndev, struct ifreq *ifrq, int cmd) > return -EOPNOTSUPP; > } > > +static int match_first_device(struct device *dev, void *data) > +{ > + return !strncmp(dev_name(dev), "davinci_mdio", 12); > +} > + > /** > * emac_dev_open - EMAC device open > * @ndev: The DaVinci EMAC network adapter > @@ -1484,8 +1489,14 @@ static int emac_dev_open(struct net_device *ndev) > > /* use the first phy on the bus if pdata did not give us a phy id */ > if (!phydev && !priv->phy_id) { > - phy = bus_find_device_by_name(&mdio_bus_type, NULL, > - "davinci_mdio"); > + /* NOTE: we can't use bus_find_device_by_name() here because > + * the device name is not guaranteed to be 'davinci_mdio'. On > + * some systems it can be 'davinci_mdio.0' so we need to use > + * strncmp() against the first part of the string to correctly > + * match it. > + */ > + phy = bus_find_device(&mdio_bus_type, NULL, NULL, > + match_first_device); > if (phy) { > priv->phy_id = dev_name(phy); > if (!priv->phy_id || !*priv->phy_id) > -- > 2.17.1 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html