netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: mvneta: only do WoL speed down if the PHY is valid

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Date:   Thu, 21 May 2020 17:55:19 +0200
From:   Daniel González Cabanelas <dgcbueu@...il.com>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        davem@...emloft.net, thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mvneta: only do WoL speed down if the PHY is valid

Thanks for the comments.

I'll look for a better approach.

Regards
Daniel

El jue., 21 may. 2020 a las 17:27, Russell King - ARM Linux admin
(<linux@...linux.org.uk>) escribió:
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 05:19:16PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > >  drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 7 ++++---
> > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
> > > index 41d2a0eac..f9170bc93 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
> > > @@ -3567,8 +3567,9 @@ static void mvneta_start_dev(struct mvneta_port *pp)
> > >
> > >     phylink_start(pp->phylink);
> > >
> > > -   /* We may have called phy_speed_down before */
> > > -   phy_speed_up(pp->dev->phydev);
> > > +   if(pp->dev->phydev)
> > > +           /* We may have called phy_speed_down before */
> > > +           phy_speed_up(pp->dev->phydev);
> >
> > I don't think it is as simple as this. You should not really be mixing
> > phy_ and phylink_ calls within one driver. You might of noticed there
> > are no other phy_ calls in this driver. So ideally you want to add
> > phylink_ calls which do the right thing.
>
> And... what is mvneta doing getting the phydev?  I removed all that
> code when converting it to phylink, since the idea with phylink is
> that the PHY is the responsibility of phylink not the network driver.
>
> I hope the patch adding pp->dev->phydev hasn't been merged as it's
> almost certainly wrong.
>
> --
> RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/
> FTTC for 0.8m (est. 1762m) line in suburbia: sync at 13.1Mbps down 424kbps up