netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 2/4] net: ethernet: mediatek: do not force autonegiation at init

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Date:   Mon, 14 Jan 2019 12:55:57 +0000
From:   René van Dorst <opensource@...rst.com>
To:     gerg@...nel.org
Cc:     sean.wang@...iatek.com, bjorn@...k.no, andrew@...n.ch,
        vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, john@...ozen.org, neil@...wn.name
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/4] net: ethernet: mediatek: do not force
 autonegiation at init

Quoting gerg@...nel.org:

> From: Greg Ungerer <gerg@...nel.org>
>
> Do not attempt to force a port phy auto-ngeotiation during the driver
> init phase. It is not necessary and results in a warning at system
> boot up:
>
> mtk_soc_eth 1e100000.ethernet: generated random MAC address be:e7:d4:9d:7d:b0
> mtk_soc_eth 1e100000.ethernet: connected mac 0 to PHY at fixed-0:00  
> [uid=00000000, driver=Generic PHY]
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at drivers/net/phy/phy.c:548 phy_start_aneg+0xf0/0x1c0
> called from state READY
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted  
> 5.0.0-rc1-00005-ge3368ed2e336-dirty #11
> Stack : 0000007a 00000000 00000000 807e0000 80710000 8006fb04  
> 8072db28 0000000b
>         00000000 00000000 8072d368 87c3db74 80770000 00000001  
> 87c3db08 2892b90e
>         00000000 00000000 80820000 00000000 00000000 2d363333  
> 0000007b 00000000
>         2d316372 00000000 00000000 00000000 80770000 00000000  
> 80715e70 00000009
>         00000224 80716e38 87d6a800 80660334 00000001 80340714  
> 00000004 807e0004
>         ...
> Call Trace:
> [<8000cfe0>] show_stack+0x94/0x12c
> [<8060de6c>] dump_stack+0x8c/0xd0
> [<80028430>] __warn+0x10c/0x120
> [<80028488>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x44/0x68
> [<803adf78>] phy_start_aneg+0xf0/0x1c0
> [<807aed8c>] mtk_init+0x434/0x4a4
> [<8047310c>] register_netdevice+0x94/0x6d0
> [<8047376c>] register_netdev+0x24/0x40
> [<803bf4c0>] mtk_probe+0x2a0/0x930
> [<80352d24>] platform_drv_probe+0x40/0x9c
> [<80350e48>] really_probe+0x1f0/0x35c
> [<803513e4>] __driver_attach+0x10c/0x114
> [<8034ec88>] bus_for_each_dev+0x70/0xd0
> [<8035023c>] bus_add_driver+0x1f0/0x25c
> [<80351c70>] driver_register+0x80/0x144
> [<800015f4>] do_one_initcall+0x50/0x1ac
> [<80795e48>] kernel_init_freeable+0x184/0x26c
> [<8062bbd4>] kernel_init+0x14/0x110
> [<80007198>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c
> ---[ end trace 6e884e9f12ed14c0 ]---
> mtk_soc_eth 1e100000.ethernet eth0: mediatek frame engine at  
> 0xbe100000, irq 22
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@...nel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> v2: first patch in this series for this change
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c  
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
> index c7763a189619..e5a32d43a71c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
> @@ -356,7 +356,6 @@ static int mtk_phy_connect(struct net_device *dev)
>  	linkmode_copy(dev->phydev->advertising, dev->phydev->supported);
>  	linkmode_set_bit(ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_Autoneg_BIT,
>  			 dev->phydev->advertising);
> -	phy_start_aneg(dev->phydev);
>
>  	of_node_put(np);
>
> --
> 2.17.1

Hi Greg,

I think this is recently fix and applied, see  
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10753537/

Greats,

René