From: Vladimir Oltean <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 20:26:54 +0300

> From: Vladimir Oltean <[email protected]>
> 
> After the patch below, the iteration through the available MMDs is
> completely short-circuited, and devs_in_pkg remains set to the initial
> value of zero.
> 
> Due to devs_in_pkg being zero, the rest of get_phy_c45_ids() is
> short-circuited too: the following loop never reaches below this point
> either (it executes "continue" for every device in package, failing to
> retrieve PHY ID for any of them):
> 
>       /* Now probe Device Identifiers for each device present. */
>       for (i = 1; i < num_ids; i++) {
>               if (!(devs_in_pkg & (1 << i)))
>                       continue;
> 
> So c45_ids->device_ids remains populated with zeroes. This causes an
> Aquantia AQR412 PHY (same as any C45 PHY would, in fact) to be probed by
> the Generic PHY driver.
> 
> The issue seems to be a case of submitting partially committed work (and
> therefore testing something other than was submitted).
> 
> The intention of the patch was to delay exiting the loop until one more
> condition is reached (the devs_in_pkg read from hardware is either 0, OR
> mostly f's). So fix the patch to reflect that.
> 
> Tested with traffic on a LS1028A-QDS, the PHY is now probed correctly
> using the Aquantia driver. The devs_in_pkg bit field is set to
> 0xe000009a, and the MMDs that are present have the following IDs:
 ...
> Fixes: bba238ed037c ("net: phy: continue searching for C45 MMDs even if first 
> returned ffff:ffff")
> Reported-by: Colin King <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Ioana Ciornei <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks.

I waited on this because I wanted to get a review from someone, and I
try to always give Andrew/Florian/Heiner/etc. a day or two on core PHY
stuff so that they can have a chance to do a review.

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