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Date:   Sat, 5 Oct 2019 14:12:22 +0200
From:   Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:     Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, hayeswang@...ltek.com,
        mario.limonciello@...l.com, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8152: Set macpassthru in reset_resume callback

On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 07:54:15PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Oct 5, 2019, at 19:46, Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 08:51:04PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> >> r8152 may fail to establish network connection after resume from system
> >> suspend.
> >> 
> >> If the USB port connects to r8152 lost its power during system suspend,
> >> the MAC address was written before is lost. The reason is that The MAC
> >> address doesn't get written again in its reset_resume callback.
> >> 
> >> So let's set MAC address again in reset_resume callback. Also remove
> >> unnecessary lock as no other locking attempt will happen during
> >> reset_resume.
> > 
> > This is two separate seemingly unrelated, other than locality in the code,
> > changes. One is a fix, the other seems to be a cleanup. Perhaps they would
> > be better addressed in separate patches.
> 
> rtl8152_set_mac_address() which gets called by set_ethernet_addr(), also holds the same mutex.
> So this is more then a cleanup and I should mention it in commit log.

Thanks, I agree that is a good idea.

> Kai-Heng
> 
> > 
> >> Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 3 +--
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c b/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
> >> index 08726090570e..cee9fef925cd 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
> >> @@ -4799,10 +4799,9 @@ static int rtl8152_reset_resume(struct usb_interface *intf)
> >> 	struct r8152 *tp = usb_get_intfdata(intf);
> >> 
> >> 	clear_bit(SELECTIVE_SUSPEND, &tp->flags);
> >> -	mutex_lock(&tp->control);
> >> 	tp->rtl_ops.init(tp);
> >> 	queue_delayed_work(system_long_wq, &tp->hw_phy_work, 0);
> >> -	mutex_unlock(&tp->control);
> >> +	set_ethernet_addr(tp);
> >> 	return rtl8152_resume(intf);
> >> }
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> 2.17.1
> >> 
>