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

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:40:56 +0300
From: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>
To: Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>, DENG Qingfang <dqfext@...il.com>,
 Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
 Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, Vladimir Oltean
 <olteanv@...il.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
 AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
 René van Dorst <opensource@...rst.com>,
 Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
 SkyLake Huang <SkyLake.Huang@...iatek.com>,
 Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc: Bartel Eerdekens <bartel.eerdekens@...stell8.be>,
 mithat.guner@...ont.com, erkin.bozoglu@...ont.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
 linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: phy: mediatek-ge: do not disable EEE
 advertisement

On 18.03.2024 10:46, Arınç ÜNAL via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.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.

Arınç