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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:18:33 -0600
From: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@...hat.com>
To: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH net v2] net: stmmac: Handle disabled MDIO busses from
devicetree
Many hardware configurations have the MDIO bus disabled, and are instead
using some other MDIO bus to talk to the MAC's phy.
of_mdiobus_register() returns -ENODEV in this case. Let's handle it
gracefully instead of failing to probe the MAC.
Fixes: 47dd7a540b8a ("net: add support for STMicroelectronics Ethernet controllers.")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@...hat.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Improve error handling code (Serge)
- Fix malformed Fixes tag (Simon)
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231211-b4-stmmac-handle-mdio-enodev-v1-1-73c20c44f8d6@redhat.com
---
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_mdio.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_mdio.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_mdio.c
index fa9e7e7040b9..0542cfd1817e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_mdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_mdio.c
@@ -591,7 +591,11 @@ int stmmac_mdio_register(struct net_device *ndev)
new_bus->parent = priv->device;
err = of_mdiobus_register(new_bus, mdio_node);
- if (err != 0) {
+ if (err == -ENODEV) {
+ err = 0;
+ dev_info(dev, "MDIO bus is disabled\n");
+ goto bus_register_fail;
+ } else if (err) {
dev_err_probe(dev, err, "Cannot register the MDIO bus\n");
goto bus_register_fail;
}
---
base-commit: bbd220ce4e29ed55ab079007cff0b550895258eb
change-id: 20231211-b4-stmmac-handle-mdio-enodev-82168de68c6a
Best regards,
--
Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@...hat.com>
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