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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@nxp.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: phy: don't stop state machine in case of MDIO error
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 16:30:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181216153019.GA25181@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4dfc05d9-9f4f-101f-e026-b57b0c194e1d@gmail.com>

> After checking the fec history it seems that at the time this
> workaround was added as part of phylib support (8 years ago),
> the MDIO access timeout value was too low and therefore sometimes
> MDIO access failed. Later timeout was set to a higher value and
> driver switched to an event-driven mechanism to signal end of
> MDIO access. So it should be safe to remove the workaround.

Hi Heiner

Thanks for digging into the details.

> 
> One issue with phy_error() is that it silently stops the PHY.
> We should at least add a phydev_err() to let the user know.

Yes, that is a good idea.

     Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-16 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-15 16:17 [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: phy: don't stop state machine in case of MDIO error Heiner Kallweit
2018-12-15 16:18 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] " Heiner Kallweit
2018-12-16  8:42   ` Andrew Lunn
2018-12-16  9:40     ` Heiner Kallweit
2018-12-16 15:30       ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2018-12-17  2:14   ` Andy Duan
2018-12-15 16:19 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: fec: remove workaround to restart state machine on " Heiner Kallweit
2018-12-17  2:05   ` Andy Duan
2018-12-17  6:42     ` Heiner Kallweit
2018-12-16  8:29 ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: phy: don't stop state machine in case of " Heiner Kallweit
2018-12-16 18:43   ` David Miller
2018-12-16 14:00 ` [PATCH net-next] net: fec: remove workaround to restart phylib state machine on MDIO timeout Heiner Kallweit

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