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Message-ID: <CAKxU2N-3HvmYztoWs4ER7WhPhFHZt1PS9GN2RRGQP3b=KhNBXw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 14:27:47 -0700
From: Rosen Penev <rosenp@...il.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@...rochip.com>,
"maintainer:MICROCHIP LAN966X ETHERNET DRIVER" <UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: lan966x: enforce phy-mode presence
On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 01:38:34PM -0700, Rosen Penev wrote:
> > The documentation for lan966x states that phy-mode is a required
> > property but the code does not enforce this. Add an error check.
> >
> > Fixes: db8bcaad5393 ("net: lan966x: add the basic lan966x driver")
> > Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@...il.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_main.c | 3 +++
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_main.c
> > index 7001584f1b7a..5d28710f4fd2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_main.c
> > @@ -1199,6 +1199,9 @@ static int lan966x_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > continue;
> >
> > phy_mode = fwnode_get_phy_mode(portnp);
> > + if (phy_mode)
> > + goto cleanup_ports;
>
> I think a dev_err_probe() would be good here to give a clue why the
> interfce failed to prove.
Probably. Although there are no other error messages in the surrounding code.
>
>
> Andrew
>
> ---
> pw-bot: cr
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