netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/3] net: ethernet: ixgbe: don't propagate -ENODEV from ixgbe_mii_bus

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Date:   Thu, 4 Mar 2021 19:00:18 +0000
From:   "Nguyen, Anthony L" <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
To:     "kuba@...nel.org" <kuba@...nel.org>
CC:     "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "yongxin.liu@...driver.com" <yongxin.liu@...driver.com>,
        "sassmann@...hat.com" <sassmann@...hat.com>,
        "Brelinski, TonyX" <tonyx.brelinski@...el.com>,
        "bgolaszewski@...libre.com" <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/3] net: ethernet: ixgbe: don't propagate -ENODEV
 from ixgbe_mii_bus_init()

On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 10:50 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed,  3 Mar 2021 17:06:47 -0800 Tony Nguyen wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
> > 
> > It's a valid use-case for ixgbe_mii_bus_init() to return -ENODEV -
> > we
> > still want to finalize the registration of the ixgbe device. Check
> > the
> > error code and don't bail out if err == -ENODEV.
> > 
> > This fixes an issue on C3000 family of SoCs where four ixgbe
> > devices
> > share a single MDIO bus and ixgbe_mii_bus_init() returns -ENODEV
> > for
> > three of them but we still want to register them.
> > 
> > Fixes: 09ef193fef7e ("net: ethernet: ixgbe: check the return value
> > of ixgbe_mii_bus_init()")
> > Reported-by: Yongxin Liu <yongxin.liu@...driver.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
> > Tested-by: Tony Brelinski <tonyx.brelinski@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
> 
> Are you sure this is not already fixed upstream by:
> 
> bd7f14df9492 ("ixgbe: fix probing of multi-port devices with one
> MDIO")
> 
> ?

That looks to solve this issue. I'll drop this patch and resend the
series.

Thanks,
Tony