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Message-ID: <398aed77-2c9c-4a43-b73a-459b415d439b@lunn.ch>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 23:25:29 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: realtek: make sure paged read is
protected by mutex
On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 04:52:04PM +0100, Daniel Golle wrote:
> As we cannot rely on phy_read_paged function before the PHY is
> identified, the paged read in rtlgen_supports_2_5gbps needs to be open
> coded as it is being called by the match_phy_device function, ie. before
> .read_page and .write_page have been populated.
>
> Make sure it is also protected by the MDIO bus mutex and use
> rtl821x_write_page instead of 3 individually locked MDIO bus operations.
match_phy_device() as far as i know, is only used during bus probe,
when trying to match a driver to a device. What are you trying to lock
against during probe?
Andrew
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