From: Anand Moon <linux.amoon@gmail.com>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
nic_swsd@realtek.com (maintainer:8169 10/100/1000 GIGABIT
ETHERNET DRIVER), Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>,
Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@rock-chips.com>,
Hans Zhang <18255117159@163.com>,
Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:8169 10/100/1000 GIGABIT
ETHERNET DRIVER), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Cc: Anand Moon <linux.amoon@gmail.com>,
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH next v1] r8169: Fix PHY lookup for mdiobus_get_phy() and improve error reporting during probe
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:46:58 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260317061700.7734-1-linux.amoon@gmail.com> (raw)
The driver currently assumes the PHY is always at address 0. On some
hardware or buggy BIOS implementations, the PHY may reside at a
different address on the MDIO bus. Update r8169_mdio_register()
to scan the bus for the first available PHY instead of hardcoding
address 0.
Additionally, switch to dev_err_probe() in the main probe path to
provide standardized error handling and cleaner log output for
registration failures.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bc37ee-234c-4568-b72e-955c130a6838@arm.com/
Fixes: ec392abc9593 ("PCI: dw-rockchip: Enable async probe by default")
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Anand Moon <linux.amoon@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
index 791277e750ba..0fd735beff92 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
@@ -5427,7 +5427,8 @@ static int r8169_mdio_register(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
{
struct pci_dev *pdev = tp->pci_dev;
struct mii_bus *new_bus;
- int ret;
+ struct phy_device *phydev;
+ int ret, addr;
/* On some boards with this chip version the BIOS is buggy and misses
* to reset the PHY page selector. This results in the PHY ID read
@@ -5462,18 +5463,31 @@ static int r8169_mdio_register(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
if (ret)
return ret;
- tp->phydev = mdiobus_get_phy(new_bus, 0);
- if (!tp->phydev) {
+ /* find the first (lowest address) PHY on the current MAC's MII bus */
+ for (addr = 0; addr < PHY_MAX_ADDR; addr++) {
+ struct phy_device *tmp = mdiobus_get_phy(new_bus, addr);
+
+ if (tmp) {
+ phydev = tmp;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (!phydev) {
+ dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no PHY found on bus\n");
return -ENODEV;
- } else if (!tp->phydev->drv) {
- /* Most chip versions fail with the genphy driver.
- * Therefore ensure that the dedicated PHY driver is loaded.
- */
+ }
+
+ /* Most chip versions fail with the genphy driver.
+ * Therefore ensure that the dedicated PHY driver is loaded.
+ */
+ if (!phydev->drv) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no dedicated PHY driver found for PHY ID 0x%08x, maybe realtek.ko needs to be added to initramfs?\n",
- tp->phydev->phy_id);
+ phydev->phy_id);
return -EUNATCH;
}
+ tp->phydev = phydev;
tp->phydev->mac_managed_pm = true;
if (rtl_supports_eee(tp))
phy_support_eee(tp->phydev);
@@ -5790,11 +5804,11 @@ static int rtl_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
rc = r8169_mdio_register(tp);
if (rc)
- return rc;
+ return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, rc, "mdio register failure\n");
rc = register_netdev(dev);
if (rc)
- return rc;
+ return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, rc, "register newdev failure\n");
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_R8169_LEDS)) {
if (rtl_is_8125(tp))
base-commit: 95c541ddfb0815a0ea8477af778bb13bb075079a
--
2.50.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-17 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-17 6:16 Anand Moon [this message]
2026-03-17 6:51 ` [PATCH next v1] r8169: Fix PHY lookup for mdiobus_get_phy() and improve error reporting during probe Heiner Kallweit
2026-03-17 7:59 ` Anand Moon
2026-03-17 9:44 ` Heiner Kallweit
2026-03-17 14:11 ` Anand Moon
2026-03-17 17:45 ` kernel test robot
2026-03-19 23:53 ` kernel test robot
2026-03-20 3:06 ` Anand Moon
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