The patch titled PHY probe not working properly for ibm_emac (PPC4xx) has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is problem-phy-probe-not-working-properly-for-ibm_emac-ppc4xx.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: PHY probe not working properly for ibm_emac (PPC4xx) From: Hynek Petrak <hynek@xxxxxxx> I have a system with AMCC PowerPC 405EP and PHY Intel LXT971A. Linux 2.6.18.3 is not able to detect the PHY ID correctly. The PHY ID detected is 0, but should be 0x1d. This is because phy_read() (__emac_mdio_read() resp.) from drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_core.c might return -ETIMEDOUT or -EREMOTEIO on error. This is ignored inside the int mii_phy_probe(struct mii_phy *phy, int address) from drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_phy.c as the return value is assigned to an u32 variable. Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_phy.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_phy.c~problem-phy-probe-not-working-properly-for-ibm_emac-ppc4xx drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_phy.c --- a/drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_phy.c~problem-phy-probe-not-working-properly-for-ibm_emac-ppc4xx +++ a/drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_phy.c @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ int mii_phy_probe(struct mii_phy *phy, i { struct mii_phy_def *def; int i; - u32 id; + int id; phy->autoneg = AUTONEG_DISABLE; phy->advertising = 0; @@ -324,6 +324,8 @@ int mii_phy_probe(struct mii_phy *phy, i /* Read ID and find matching entry */ id = (phy_read(phy, MII_PHYSID1) << 16) | phy_read(phy, MII_PHYSID2); + if (id < 0) + return -ENODEV; for (i = 0; (def = mii_phy_table[i]) != NULL; i++) if ((id & def->phy_id_mask) == def->phy_id) break; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hynek@xxxxxxx are problem-phy-probe-not-working-properly-for-ibm_emac-ppc4xx.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html