netdev - Re: [RESENT PATCH net--stat 1/1] net: ethernet: fec: Revert "net: ethernet: fec: Replace interrupt driven MDIO with polled IO"

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Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2020 04:14:32 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
Cc:     Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@....com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, cphealy@...il.com,
        martin.fuzzey@...wbird.group
Subject: Re: [RESENT PATCH net--stat 1/1] net: ethernet: fec: Revert "net:
 ethernet: fec: Replace interrupt driven MDIO with polled IO"

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 05:06:31AM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:24:02AM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:08:04PM +0800, Fugang Duan wrote:
> > > This reverts commit 29ae6bd1b0d8a57d7c00ab12cbb949fc41986eef.
> > > 
> > > The commit breaks ethernet function on i.MX6SX, i.MX7D, i.MX8MM,
> > > i.MX8MQ, and i.MX8QXP platforms. Boot yocto system by NFS mounting
> > > rootfs will be failed with the commit.
> > 
> > I'm afraid this commit breaks networking on i.MX7D for me :-( My board
> > is configured to boot over NFS root with IP autoconfiguration through
> > DHCP. The DHCP request goes out, the reply it sent back by the server,
> > but never noticed by the fec driver.
> > 
> > v5.7 works fine. As 29ae6bd1b0d8a57d7c00ab12cbb949fc41986eef was merged
> > during the v5.8 merge window, I suspect something else cropped in
> > between 29ae6bd1b0d8a57d7c00ab12cbb949fc41986eef and this patch that
> > needs to be reverted too. We're close to v5.8 and it would be annoying
> > to see this regression ending up in the released kernel. I can test
> > patches, but I'm not familiar enough with the driver (or the networking
> > subsystem) to fix the issue myself.
> 
> If it can be of any help, I've confirmed that, to get the network back
> to usable state from v5.8-rc6, I have to revert all patches up to this
> one. This is the top of my branch, on top of v5.8-rc6:
> 
> 5bbe80c9efea Revert "net: ethernet: fec: Revert "net: ethernet: fec: Replace interrupt driven MDIO with polled IO""
> 5462896a08c1 Revert "net: ethernet: fec: Replace interrupt driven MDIO with polled IO"
> 824a82e2bdfa Revert "net: ethernet: fec: move GPR register offset and bit into DT"
> bfe330591cab Revert "net: fec: disable correct clk in the err path of fec_enet_clk_enable"
> 109958cad578 Revert "net: ethernet: fec: prevent tx starvation under high rx load"

OK.

What PHY are you using? A Micrel?

And which DT file?

Thanks
	Andrew