netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: fec: Replace interrupt driven MDIO with polled IO

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Date:   Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:37:50 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@....com>
Cc:     Andy Duan <fugang.duan@....com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Chris Healy <Chris.Healy@....aero>,
        dl-linux-imx <linux-imx@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: fec: Replace interrupt driven MDIO with
 polled IO

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 03:19:54PM +0000, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This patch breaks network boot on at least imx8mm-evk. Boot works if I 
> revert just commit 29ae6bd1b0d8 ("net: ethernet: fec: Replace interrupt 
> driven MDIO with polled IO") on top of next-20200424.
> 
> Running with tp_printk trace_event=mdio:* shows the phy identifier is 
> not read correctly:
> 
> BAD:
> [    9.058457] mdio_access: 30be0000.ethernet-1 read  phy:0x00 reg:0x02 
> val:0x0000
> [    9.065857] mdio_access: 30be0000.ethernet-1 read  phy:0x00 reg:0x03 
> val:0x0000
> 
> GOOD:
> [    9.100485] mdio_access: 30be0000.ethernet-1 read  phy:0x00 reg:0x02 
> val:0x004d
> [    9.108271] mdio_access: 30be0000.ethernet-1 read  phy:0x00 reg:0x03 
> val:0xd074
> 
> I don't have the original patch in my inbox, hope the manual In-Reply-To 
> header is OK.

Hi Leonard

Thanks for you message. You are the first to provide useful
debug information.

Are you using NFS root?

Do you see any ETIMEOUT messages in the bad case?

Thanks
	Andrew