On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at 22:30, Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 18.01.2019 21:58, Heiner Kallweit wrote: > > On 18.01.2019 09:48, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > >> On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at 09:39, Krzysztof Kozlowski <k...@kernel.org> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> On today's next (next-20190118) my Colibri VF50 board fails to boot up > >>> from network (DHCP, NFSv4 root). Looks like missing network adapter. > >>> Expected: > >>> [ 3.041773] Micrel KSZ8041 400d1000.ethernet-1:00: attached PHY driver > >>> [Micrel KSZ8041] (mii_bus:phy_addr=400d1000.ethernet-1:00, irq=POLL) > >>> > >>> Result: > >>> [ 15.614964] Root-NFS: no NFS server address > >>> [ 15.619353] VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. > >>> [ 15.626762] VFS: Cannot open root device "nfs" or unknown-block(2,0): > >>> error -6 > >>> [ 15.634252] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the > >>> available partitions: > >>> [ 15.642791] 0100 16384 ram0 > >>> [ 15.642804] (driver?) > >>> [ 15.649076] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs > >>> on unknown-block(2,0) > >>> [ 15.657423] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount > >>> root fs on unknown-block(2,0) ]--- > >>> > >>> Bisect pointed to: > >>> net: phy: check return code when requesting PHY driver module > >> > >> I see now in the logs: > >> [ 2.436822] mdio_bus 400d1000.ethernet-1:00: error -2 loading PHY > >> driver module for ID 0x00221513 > >> which is kind of misleading. There is no initramfs so there is no > >> usermod library at this point. It is not needed. This seems to break > >> all DHCP/NFS root boots without initrd/initramfs. > >> > > Thanks for the report. Could you please provide your kernel config > > and the syslog of a boot before or w/o the patch in question? > > > > If you boot via nfs then I'd expect that the PHY driver is built-in and > > not a module. Therefore it's not fully clear to me yet why > > request_module() returns -ENOENT. > > > OK, I see. The -ENOENT could refer to the modprobe binary, not the PHY > driver module. Still it would be helpful to see the kernel config and > the requested log.
As I wrote - there is no initramfs so there is no modprobe binary neither. The log and config were attached to the first email. Best regards, Krzysztof
