Re: net: stmmac: dwmac-meson8b: interface sometimes does not come up at boot

[Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com>]

On Wed 09 Mar 2022 at 15:45, Erico Nunes <nunes.erico@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 1:56 PM Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> You could try the following (quick and dirty) test patch that fully mimics
>> the vendor driver as found here:
>> https://github.com/khadas/linux/blob/buildroot-aml-4.9/drivers/amlogic/ethernet/phy/amlogic.c
>>
>> First apply
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=a502a8f04097e038c3daa16c5202a9538116d563
>> This patch is in the net tree currently and should show up in linux-next
>> beginning of the week.
>>
>> On top please apply the following (it includes the test patch your working with).
>
> I triggered test jobs with this configuration (latest mainline +
> a502a8f0409 + test patch for vendor driver behaviour), and the results
> are pretty much the same as with the previous test patch from this
> thread only.
> That is, I never got the issue with non-functional link up anymore,
> but I get the (rare) issue with link not going up.
> The reproducibility is still extremely low, in the >1% range.

Low reproducibility means the problem is still there, or at least not
understood completly.

I understand the benefit from the user standpoint.

Heiner if you are going to continue from the test patch you sent,
I would welcome some explanation with each of the changes.

We know very little about this IP and I'm not very confortable with
tweaking/aligning with AML sdk "blindly" on a driver that has otherwise
been working well so far.

Thx

>
> So at this point, I'm not sure how much more effort to invest into
> this. Given the rate is very low and the fallback is it will just
> reset the link and proceed to work, I think the situation would
> already be much better with the solution from that test patch being
> merged. If you propose that as a patch separately, I'm happy to test
> the final submitted patch again and provide feedback there. Or if
> there is another solution to try, I can try with that too.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Erico