netdev - Re: [PATCH net,stable 1/1] net: fec: don't dump RX FIFO register when not available

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Date:   Mon, 15 Oct 2018 22:53:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, tremyfr@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net,stable 1/1] net: fec: don't dump RX FIFO register
 when not available

From: Andy Duan <fugang.duan@....com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 05:19:00 +0000

> From: Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@....com>
> 
> Commit db65f35f50e0 ("net: fec: add support of ethtool get_regs") introduce
> ethool "--register-dump" interface to dump all FEC registers.
> 
> But not all silicon implementations of the Freescale FEC hardware module
> have the FRBR (FIFO Receive Bound Register) and FRSR (FIFO Receive Start
> Register) register, so we should not be trying to dump them on those that
> don't.
> 
> To fix it we create a quirk flag, FEC_QUIRK_HAS_RFREG, and check it before
> dump those RX FIFO registers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@....com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.