netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 5/8] net: phy: aquantia: wait for FW reset before checking the vendor ID

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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:24:59 +0200
From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>, 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>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>, 
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com, 
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/8] net: phy: aquantia: wait for FW reset before
 checking the vendor ID

On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 9:27 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 08:45:46PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
> >
> > Checking the firmware register before it boots makes no sense, it will
> > report 0 even if FW is loaded. Always wait for FW to boot before
> > continuing.
>
> Please split this patch up. One patch which renames the method to the
> more generic aqr_ since it is used by more than aqr107. Then add the
> new use of it.
>

Will do.

> Is this actually a fix? What happens to the firmware if you try to
> download it while it is still booting? Or do you end up downloading
> firmware when it is not actually needed? Please expand the commit
> message.
>

It says '0' and the driver tries to load it from nvmem, then the
filesystem and bails-out after these two fail. I'll extend the commit
message.

Bart

>     Andrew
>
> ---
> pw-bot: cr