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Message-ID: <b1de1e95-9ce3-1324-346d-07196aa30637@wanyeetech.com>
Date:   Sat, 25 Jul 2020 16:02:03 +0800
From:   Zhou Yanjie <zhouyanjie@...yeetech.com>
To:     Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>
Cc:     tsbogend@...ha.franken.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, keescook@...omium.org,
        hns@...delico.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
        dongsheng.qiu@...enic.com, aric.pzqi@...enic.com,
        rick.tyliu@...enic.com, yanfei.li@...enic.com,
        sernia.zhou@...mail.com, zhenwenjin@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: CI20: Update defconfig for EFUSE.

Hi Paul,

在 2020/7/23 下午4:47, Paul Cercueil 写道:
> Hi Zhou,
>
> Le jeu. 23 juil. 2020 à 15:19, 周琰杰 (Zhou Yanjie) 
> <zhouyanjie@...yeetech.com> a écrit :
>> The commit 19c968222934 ("MIPS: DTS: CI20: make DM9000 Ethernet
>> controller use NVMEM to find the default MAC address") add EFUSE
>> node for DM9000 in CI20, however, the EFUSE driver is not selected,
>> which will cause the DM9000 to fail to read the MAC address from
>> EFUSE, causing the following issue:
>>
>> [FAILED] Failed to start Raise network interfaces.
>>
>> Fix this problem by select CONFIG_JZ4780_EFUSE by default in the
>> ci20_defconfig.
>
> Does it actually fix it on a clean 5.8-rc kernel?
>
> From what I know, the efuse driver cannot probe, because the nemc 
> driver requests the complete memory resource, so the efuse driver's 
> devm_platform_ioremap_resource() fails.
>
> I did send a patch to fix this 
> (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/551a8560261543c1decb1d4d1671ec4b7fa52fdb.1582905653.git.hns@goldelico.com/),
> but it's hard to have somebody merge it, because nobody maintains 
> drivers/memory/.
>
You are right, I cleaned up the changes made to support X1000's EFUSE 
and rebase to clean 5.8-RC6, it still does not work properly, I think we 
should drop this fix patch.

>> Fixes: 19c968222934 ("MIPS: DTS: CI20: make DM9000 Ethernet
>> controller use NVMEM to find the default MAC address").
>
> That shouldn't be a fix IMHO - the devicetree was updated in one 
> commit, the config should be updated in another. The "bug" here is 
> that it wasn't done right away.
>
Okay.
>> Signed-off-by: 周琰杰 (Zhou Yanjie) <zhouyanjie@...yeetech.com>
>
> Btw - when you add a Fixes: tag to fix a commit that is not for the 
> kernel currently in RC phase, you need to Cc linux-stable as well.
>
Sure, I will pay attention next time.

Thanks and best regards!


> Cheers,
> -Paul
>
>> ---
>>  arch/mips/configs/ci20_defconfig | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/mips/configs/ci20_defconfig 
>> b/arch/mips/configs/ci20_defconfig
>> index f433fad16073..ba26ba4de09a 100644
>> --- a/arch/mips/configs/ci20_defconfig
>> +++ b/arch/mips/configs/ci20_defconfig
>> @@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ CONFIG_INGENIC_OST=y
>>  CONFIG_MEMORY=y
>>  CONFIG_PWM=y
>>  CONFIG_PWM_JZ4740=m
>> +CONFIG_JZ4780_EFUSE=y
>>  CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y
>>  # CONFIG_DNOTIFY is not set
>>  CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=y
>> -- 
>> 2.11.0
>>
>