On 27/04/16 12:49, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 03:30:57PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote: >> Hi David, All, >> >> Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtyl...@cogentembedded.com> writes: >> >>> Arnd Bergmann asked that get_phy_device() returns either NULL or the error >>> value, not both on error. Do as he said, return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) instead >>> of NULL when the PHY ID registers read as all ones. >>> >>> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> >>> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtyl...@cogentembedded.com> >>> >>> --- >>> drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 2 +- >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >>> >>> Index: net-next/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c >>> =================================================================== >>> --- net-next.orig/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c >>> +++ net-next/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c >>> @@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ struct phy_device *get_phy_device(struct >>> >>> /* If the phy_id is mostly Fs, there is no device there */ >>> if ((phy_id & 0x1fffffff) == 0x1fffffff) >>> - return NULL; >>> + return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); >>> >>> return phy_device_create(bus, addr, phy_id, is_c45, &c45_ids); >>> } > > This change is wrong, it needs reverting, or the call sights need > fixing to expect ENODEV. > > The point is, the device not being there is not an error, with respect > to the code calling this function. > > It gets called by mdiobus_scan() > > struct phy_device *mdiobus_scan(struct mii_bus *bus, int addr) > { > struct phy_device *phydev; > int err; > > phydev = get_phy_device(bus, addr, false); > if (IS_ERR(phydev) || phydev == NULL) > return phydev; > > So before, we return NULL, if the device was not there. Now we return > ERR_PTR(-ENODEV). > > This is being called by: > > int __mdiobus_register(struct mii_bus *bus, struct module *owner) > { > struct mdio_device *mdiodev; > ... > for (i = 0; i < PHY_MAX_ADDR; i++) { > if ((bus->phy_mask & (1 << i)) == 0) { > struct phy_device *phydev; > > phydev = mdiobus_scan(bus, i); > if (IS_ERR(phydev)) { > err = PTR_ERR(phydev); > goto error; > } > } > } > > This is treating ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) as a fatal error, where as before > IS_ERR(NULL) would be false and it would continue scanning other > addresses on the bus. > > Please revert this, or fix all the callsites such that ENODEV is not a > fatal error.
So the one you pointed out in __mdiobus_register() is definitively needed, though I did get a different issue than Vivien's (-EBUSY vs. -EINVAL). The get_phy_device() in drivers/of/of_mdio.c probably needs something similar too, here is what I locally have for the moment: diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c index 499003ee8055..94a27b028dd8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c @@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ int __mdiobus_register(struct mii_bus *bus, struct module *owner) struct phy_device *phydev; phydev = mdiobus_scan(bus, i); - if (IS_ERR(phydev)) { + if (IS_ERR(phydev) && PTR_ERR(phydev) != -ENODEV) { err = PTR_ERR(phydev); goto error; } -- Florian