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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk, f.fainelli@gmail.com,
	hkallweit1@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: make phy_error() report which PHY has failed
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 22:05:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191219210503.GR17475@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191219.125010.1105219757379875134.davem@davemloft.net>

> I think I agree with Heiner that it is valuable to know whether the
> error occurred from the interrupt handler or the state machine (and
> if the state machine, where that got called from).
> 
> So I totally disagree with removing the backtrace, sorry.

Russell does have a point about the backtrace not giving an indication
of which phy experienced the error. So adding the phydev_err() call,
which will prefix the print with an identifier for the PHY, is a good
idea. So we should add that, and keep the WARN().

      Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-19 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-17 12:53 [PATCH net] net: phy: make phy_error() report which PHY has failed Russell King
2019-12-17 21:41 ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-12-17 23:34   ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-12-18 20:54     ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-12-18 22:09       ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-12-19  7:10         ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-12-19 17:06           ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-12-20 18:46             ` Florian Fainelli
2019-12-20 22:28               ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-12-19 20:50 ` David Miller
2019-12-19 21:05   ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2019-12-19 22:14     ` David Miller
2019-12-19 21:45   ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-12-20  9:18     ` Andrew Lunn

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