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Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:14:42 -0700
From:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:	Jonas Gorski <jogo@...nwrt.org>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: re-apply PHY fixups during phy_register_device

2014-07-28 15:13 GMT-07:00 Jonas Gorski <jogo@...nwrt.org>:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:57:25 -0700
> Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> Commit 87aa9f9c61ad ("net: phy: consolidate PHY reset in phy_init_hw()")
>> moved the call to phy_scan_fixups() in phy_init_hw() after a software
>> reset is performed.
>>
>> This broke PHY drivers which do register an early PHY fixup callback to
>> intercept the PHY probing and do things like changing the 32-bits unique
>> PHY identifier when a pseudo-PHY address has been used.
>>
>> Reported-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
>> Reported-by: Jonas Gorski <jogo@...nwrt.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
>> ---
>> This changes is applicable to 3.14+ thanks!
>>
>>  drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
>> index 74a82328dd49..1759d54682c8 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
>> @@ -355,6 +355,7 @@ int phy_device_register(struct phy_device *phydev)
>>       phydev->bus->phy_map[phydev->addr] = phydev;
>>
>>       /* Run all of the fixups for this PHY */
>> +     phy_scan_fixups(phydev);
>>       err = phy_init_hw(phydev);
>
> You can safely remove the call to phy_init_hw(), as it will do nothing:
>
> int phy_init_hw(struct phy_device *phydev)
> {
>         int ret = 0;
>
>         if (!phydev->drv || ...) <- always true at this point
>                 return 0;
>
>
> Also you should check the return value of phy_scan_fixups.
>
>>       if (err) {
>>               pr_err("PHY %d failed to initialize\n", phydev->addr);
>
> So this can be actually hit.

Good catch, I will resubmit a v2 shortly, thanks!
-- 
Florian
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