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Date:   Fri, 25 Aug 2017 09:49:15 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...e-electrons.com>,
        davem@...emloft.net, kishon@...com, andrew@...n.ch,
        jason@...edaemon.net, sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com,
        gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com
Cc:     thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com, nadavh@...vell.com,
        linux@...linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mw@...ihalf.com, stefanc@...vell.com,
        miquel.raynal@...e-electrons.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 08/14] net: mvpp2: check the netif is running
 in the link_event function

On 08/25/2017 07:48 AM, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> This patch adds an extra check when the link_event function is called,
> so that it won't do anything when the netif isn't running.

Why is this needed? Are you possibly starting the PHY state machine
earlier than your ndo_open() call? Looking quickly through the driver
does not suggest this is going on since you properly connect to the PHY
in mvpp2_open() and start the PHY there.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...e-electrons.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c
> index 1b26f5ed994f..49a6789a4142 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c
> @@ -5741,6 +5741,9 @@ static void mvpp2_link_event(struct net_device *dev)
>  	struct mvpp2_port *port = netdev_priv(dev);
>  	struct phy_device *phydev = dev->phydev;
>  
> +	if (!netif_running(dev))
> +		return;
> +
>  	if (phydev->link) {
>  		if ((port->speed != phydev->speed) ||
>  		    (port->duplex != phydev->duplex)) {
> 


-- 
Florian