Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: phy: mediatek-ge: do not disable EEE advertisement

["Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 11:40:56PM +0300, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
> On 18.03.2024 10:46, Arınç ÜNAL via B4 Relay wrote:
> > From: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@arinc9.com>
> > 
> > There's no need to disable Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) advertisement on
> > the MT7530 and MT7531 switch PHYs. EEE works fine on MT7530 and MT7531
> > switch PHYs. Remove the code where EEE advertisement is disabled.
> > 
> > This is a bugfix because there's a possible race condition where the
> > mediatek-ge driver would kick in after the MT7530 DSA subdriver which would
> > have EEE disabled until manually enabled.
> 
> Can I get an opinion on this? Is it actually possible that the PHY driver
> would start probing after the DSA subdriver? On the console logs for the
> DSA subdriver, I can see that the name of the PHY driver will appear, which
> makes me believe the PHY driver would actually never probe after the DSA
> subdriver.
> 
> [    4.402641] mt7530-mdio mdio-bus:1f wan (uninitialized): PHY [mt7530-0:00] driver [MediaTek MT7530 PHY] (irq=POLL)
> [    4.420392] mt7530-mdio mdio-bus:1f lan0 (uninitialized): PHY [mt7530-0:01] driver [MediaTek MT7530 PHY] (irq=POLL)
> [    4.437791] mt7530-mdio mdio-bus:1f lan1 (uninitialized): PHY [mt7530-0:02] driver [MediaTek MT7530 PHY] (irq=POLL)
> [    4.455096] mt7530-mdio mdio-bus:1f lan2 (uninitialized): PHY [mt7530-0:03] driver [MediaTek MT7530 PHY] (irq=POLL)
> [    4.472422] mt7530-mdio mdio-bus:1f lan3 (uninitialized): PHY [mt7530-0:04] driver [MediaTek MT7530 PHY] (irq=POLL)
> 
> I don't want to submit a bugfix to the net tree if the bug won't ever
> happen in real life.

It would be really great if you could tell us which bug fixes you're
submitting are for a real problem that you or a user have encountered,
and which are down to essentially code inspection and things that
"aren't correct". Basically, don't do this.

It isn't true that the PHY specific driver will be probed before DSA
initialises - consider the case where the DSA driver is built-in but
the PHY specific driver is modular and on the not-yet-mounted rootfs.
That would result in the generic PHY driver being used even when the
PHY specific driver were to be loaded later - and thus only basic
standard 802.3 PHY behaviour will be supported.

That's not specific to mt7530, it applies to everything that uses
phylib. It isn't something that really warrants "bug fixing" in each
and every driver.

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