From: Philippe Reynes <tremyfr@gmail.com>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: ethernet: bcmgenet: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 23:07:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <577C2189.8090604@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <577B37CC.80807@gmail.com>
Hi Florian,
On 05/07/16 06:30, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Le 04/07/2016 16:03, David Miller a écrit :
>> From: Philippe Reynes<tremyfr@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 17:33:57 +0200
>>
>>> There are two generics functions phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings,
>>> so we can use them instead of defining the same code in the driver.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Reynes<tremyfr@gmail.com>
>>
>> Applied.
>>
>
> The transformation is not equivalent, we lost the checks on
> netif_running() in the process, and those are here for a reason, if the
> interface is down and therefore clock gated, MDIO accesses to the PHY
> will simply fail outright and cause bus errors.
Oh, I see, I've missed this. Sorry for this mistake.
We should revert this path.
I think that a lot of hardware had the same behaviour.
I'm going to look for a generic solution for this behaviour.
If someone has an idea ...
> Philippe, have you tested this?
I haven't tested, I don't have the hardware.
Philippe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-05 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-03 15:33 [PATCH 1/2] net: ethernet: bcmgenet: use phydev from struct net_device Philippe Reynes
2016-07-03 15:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] net: ethernet: bcmgenet: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings Philippe Reynes
2016-07-04 23:03 ` David Miller
2016-07-05 4:30 ` Florian Fainelli
2016-07-05 21:07 ` Philippe Reynes [this message]
2016-07-05 21:15 ` Florian Fainelli
2016-07-05 21:40 ` Ben Hutchings
2016-07-10 22:50 ` Philippe Reynes
2016-07-11 2:30 ` Florian Fainelli
2016-07-08 1:29 ` Florian Fainelli
2016-07-04 23:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] net: ethernet: bcmgenet: use phydev from struct net_device David Miller
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