netdev - Re: [PATCH] sbc8641: drop bogus PHY IRQ entries from DTS file

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Message-ID: <1449623421.6028.13.camel@ellerman.id.au>
Date:	Wed, 09 Dec 2015 12:10:21 +1100
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sbc8641: drop bogus PHY IRQ entries from DTS file

On Tue, 2015-12-08 at 17:44 -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:

> This file was originally cloned off of the MPC8641D-HPCN reference
> platform, which actually had a PHY IRQ line connected.  However
> this board does not.  The bogus entry was largely inert and went
> undetected until commit 321beec5047af83db90c88114b7e664b156f49fe
> ("net: phy: Use interrupts when available in NOLINK state") was
> added to the tree.
> 
> With the above commit, the board fails to NFS boot since it sits
> waiting for a PHY IRQ event that of course never arrives.  Removing
> the bogus entries from the DTS file fixes the issue.

Commit 321beec5047a ("net: phy: Use interrupts when available in NOLINK state")
went into 4.4-rc2, so this is a fix for 4.4 right?

cheers

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