netdev - [PATCH net] r8169: fix PHY driver check on platforms w/o module softdeps

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Message-ID: <40373530-6d40-4358-df58-13622a4512c2@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:33:32 +0100
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@...roid-x86.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net] r8169: fix PHY driver check on platforms w/o module
 softdeps

On Android/x86 the module loading infrastructure can't deal with
softdeps. Therefore the check for presence of the Realtek PHY driver
module fails. mdiobus_register() will try to load the PHY driver
module, therefore move the check to after this call and explicitly
check that a dedicated PHY driver is bound to the PHY device.

Fixes: f32593773549 ("r8169: check that Realtek PHY driver module is loaded")
Reported-by: Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@...roid-x86.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
---
Please apply fix back to 5.4 only. On 4.19 it would break processing.
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 16 +++++++---------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
index a9bdafd15..791d99b9e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
@@ -5285,6 +5285,13 @@ static int r8169_mdio_register(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
 	if (!tp->phydev) {
 		mdiobus_unregister(new_bus);
 		return -ENODEV;
+	} else if (!tp->phydev->drv) {
+		/* Most chip versions fail with the genphy driver.
+		 * Therefore ensure that the dedicated PHY driver is loaded.
+		 */
+		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "realtek.ko not loaded, maybe it needs to be added to initramfs?\n");
+		mdiobus_unregister(new_bus);
+		return -EUNATCH;
 	}
 
 	/* PHY will be woken up in rtl_open() */
@@ -5446,15 +5453,6 @@ static int rtl_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
 	int chipset, region;
 	int jumbo_max, rc;
 
-	/* Some tools for creating an initramfs don't consider softdeps, then
-	 * r8169.ko may be in initramfs, but realtek.ko not. Then the generic
-	 * PHY driver is used that doesn't work with most chip versions.
-	 */
-	if (!driver_find("RTL8201CP Ethernet", &mdio_bus_type)) {
-		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "realtek.ko not loaded, maybe it needs to be added to initramfs?\n");
-		return -ENOENT;
-	}
-
 	dev = devm_alloc_etherdev(&pdev->dev, sizeof (*tp));
 	if (!dev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.26.0