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Date:   Fri, 26 May 2017 17:02:03 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Woojung.Huh@...rochip.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, andrew@...n.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: phy: Create sysfs reciprocal links for
 attached_dev/phydev

On 05/26/2017 04:52 PM, Woojung.Huh@...rochip.com wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> 
>>> I knew that it is applied to net-next.
>>> However, sysfs_create_link() fails when fixed phy
>> (drivers/net/phy/fixed_phy.c)
>>> Do you have a chance to test with it?
>>
>> I did, my main test system (BCM7445 w/ bcm_sf2) has one normal PHY
>> driver and 3 fixed PHYs (including one for the CPU port/master netdev),
>> see below.
>>
>> What kind of error do you get here?
> sysfs_create_link() returns -2 (-ENOENT).
> 
>>
>> # ls -l /sys/class/net/gphy/phydev
>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Jan  1 00:00
>> /sys/class/net/gphy/phydev ->
>> ../../../f0b403c0.mdio/mdio_bus/f0b403c0.mdio/f0b403c0.mdio:05
>> # ls -l /sys/class/net/*/phydev
>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Jan  1 00:01
>> /sys/class/net/eth0/phydev -> ../../../../Fixed MDIO
>> bus.0/mdio_bus/fixed-0/fixed-0:00
>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Jan  1 00:00
>> /sys/class/net/gphy/phydev ->
>> ../../../f0b403c0.mdio/mdio_bus/f0b403c0.mdio/f0b403c0.mdio:05
>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Jan  1 00:01
>> /sys/class/net/moca/phydev -> ../../../../../Fixed MDIO
>> bus.0/mdio_bus/fixed-0/fixed-0:02
>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Jan  1 00:01
>> /sys/class/net/rgmii_1/phydev -> ../../../mdio_bus/sf2-1/sf2-1:00
>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Jan  1 00:01
>> /sys/class/net/rgmii_2/phydev -> ../../../../../Fixed MDIO
>> bus.0/mdio_bus/fixed-0/fixed-0:01
>>
>> # ls -l /sys/class/mdio_bus/fixed-0/*/attached_dev
>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Jan  1 00:01
>> /sys/class/mdio_bus/fixed-0/fixed-0:00/attached_dev ->
>> ../../../../rdb/f04a0000.ethernet/net/eth0
>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Jan  1 00:02
>> /sys/class/mdio_bus/fixed-0/fixed-0:01/attached_dev ->
>> ../../../../rdb/rdb:switch_top@...00000/f0b00000.ethernet_switch/net/rgm
>> ii_2
>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Jan  1 00:02
>> /sys/class/mdio_bus/fixed-0/fixed-0:02/attached_dev ->
>> ../../../../rdb/rdb:switch_top@...00000/f0b00000.ethernet_switch/net/moc
>> a
>>
>> # ls -l /sys/class/mdio_bus/f0b403c0.mdio/f0b403c0.mdio\:05/attached_dev
>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Jan  1 00:02
>> /sys/class/mdio_bus/f0b403c0.mdio/f0b403c0.mdio:05/attached_dev ->
>> ../../../../f0b00000.ethernet_switch/net/gphy
> 
> /sys/class/mdio_bus/devices/fixed-0:00/* exists.
> But not /sys/class/net/eth0.. because Ethernet driver initialization failed.

OK, I am confused now. You are describing what is going on with your
platform right? Can you describe a bit further here what is happening
and with which type of interface? Is this with the CPU interface or
something?
-- 
Florian