2018-06-19 18:55 GMT+02:00 Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On 06/19/2018 09:09 AM, 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>
>> ---
>> 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);
>
> const char *bus_name = "davinci_mdio";
>
> return !strncmp(dev_name(dev), bus_name, strlen(bus_name));
>
> Or even better yet, if you want to make sure this really is a PHY device
> that you are trying to match, you could try to use sscanf() with PHY_ID_FMT.
> --
> Florian
I don't think this is necessary. This simple function would get too
complicated with the additional buffer for the sscanf'ed phy name etc.
Thanks,
Bart
