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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Jian-Hong Pan <jhp@endlessos.org>
Cc: Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux@endlessos.org,
	linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: bcmgenet: Fix attaching to PYH failed on RPi 4B
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 15:09:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YNCPcmEPuwdwoLto@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210621103310.186334-1-jhp@endlessos.org>

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 06:33:11PM +0800, Jian-Hong Pan wrote:
> The Broadcom UniMAC MDIO bus comes too late. So, GENET cannot find the
> ethernet PHY on UniMAC MDIO bus. This leads GENET fail to attach the
> PHY.
> 
> bcmgenet fd580000.ethernet: GENET 5.0 EPHY: 0x0000
> ...
> could not attach to PHY
> bcmgenet fd580000.ethernet eth0: failed to connect to PHY
> uart-pl011 fe201000.serial: no DMA platform data
> libphy: bcmgenet MII bus: probed
> ...
> unimac-mdio unimac-mdio.-19: Broadcom UniMAC MDIO bus
> 
> This patch makes GENET try to connect the PHY up to 3 times. Also, waits
> a while between each time for mdio-bcm-unimac module's loading and
> probing.

Don't loop. Return -EPROBE_DEFER. The driver core will then probed the
driver again later, by which time, the MDIO bus driver should of
probed.

	Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-21 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-21 10:33 [PATCH] net: bcmgenet: Fix attaching to PYH failed on RPi 4B Jian-Hong Pan
2021-06-21 13:09 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2021-06-21 16:37   ` Florian Fainelli
2021-06-21 16:47     ` Florian Fainelli
2021-06-21 16:56     ` Peter Robinson
2021-06-21 20:15       ` Stefan Wahren
2021-06-21 21:47         ` Florian Fainelli
2021-06-22  6:29           ` Jian-Hong Pan
2021-06-22  6:50             ` Heiner Kallweit
2021-06-22  7:46               ` Jian-Hong Pan
2021-06-23  3:28                 ` [PATCH v2] " Jian-Hong Pan
2021-06-23  4:00                   ` Florian Fainelli
2021-06-23 20:50                   ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2021-06-23 21:19                     ` Florian Fainelli
2021-06-24  2:47                       ` Jian-Hong Pan
2021-06-24  3:27                         ` Florian Fainelli
2021-06-24  3:28                           ` Jian-Hong Pan
2021-06-24  3:22                       ` [PATCH v3] net: bcmgenet: Add mdio-bcm-unimac soft dependency Jian-Hong Pan
2021-06-24 23:00                         ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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