Re: [PATCH net v4 3/3] net: stmmac: Specify hardware capability value when FIFO size isn't specified

Andrew Lunn
2025-01-31T14:16:04Z

On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 09:46:41AM +0000, Steven Price wrote:
> On 27/01/2025 01:38, Kunihiko Hayashi wrote:
> > When Tx/Rx FIFO size is not specified in advance, the driver checks if
> > the value is zero and sets the hardware capability value in functions
> > where that value is used.
> >
> > Consolidate the check and settings into function stmmac_hw_init() and
> > remove redundant other statements.
> >
> > If FIFO size is zero and the hardware capability also doesn't have upper
> > limit values, return with an error message.
>
> This patch breaks my Firefly RK3288 board. It appears that all of the
> following are true:
>
> * priv->plat->rx_fifo_size == 0
> * priv->dma_cap.rx_fifo_size == 0
> * priv->plat->tx_fifo_size == 0
> * priv->dma_cap.tx_fifo_size == 0
>
> Simply removing the "return -ENODEV" lines gets this platform working
> again (and AFAICT matches the behaviour before this patch was applied).
> I'm not sure whether this points to another bug causing these to
> all be zero or if this is just an oversight. The below patch gets my
> board working:

Thanks for the quick report of the problem.

Your 'fix' basically just reverts the patch. Let first try to
understand what is going on, and fix the patch. We can do a revert
later if we cannot find a better solution.

I'm guessing, but in your setup, i assume the value is never written
to a register, hence 0 is O.K. e.g. dwmac1000_dma_operation_mode_rx(),
the fifosz value is used to determine if flow control can be used, but
is otherwise ignored.

We should determine which versions of stmmac actually need values, and
limit the test to those versions.

Andrew