> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszew...@baylibre.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2020 16:15
> To: Liu, Yongxin <yongxin....@windriver.com>
> Cc: David S . Miller <da...@davemloft.net>; netdev
> <netdev@vger.kernel.org>; LKML <linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "net: ethernet: ixgbe: check the return value
> of ixgbe_mii_bus_init()"
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 4:45 AM Yongxin Liu <yongxin....@windriver.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > This reverts commit 09ef193fef7efb0175a04634853862d717adbb95.
> >
> > For C3000 family of SoCs, they have four ixgbe devices sharing a single
> MDIO bus.
> > ixgbe_mii_bus_init() returns -ENODEV for other three devices. The
> > propagation of the error code makes other three ixgbe devices
> unregistered.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yongxin Liu <yongxin....@windriver.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 6 +-----
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> > b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> > index 2f8a4cfc5fa1..5e5223becf86 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> > @@ -11031,14 +11031,10 @@ static int ixgbe_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> const struct pci_device_id *ent)
> > IXGBE_LINK_SPEED_10GB_FULL |
> IXGBE_LINK_SPEED_1GB_FULL,
> > true);
> >
> > - err = ixgbe_mii_bus_init(hw);
> > - if (err)
> > - goto err_netdev;
> > + ixgbe_mii_bus_init(hw);
> >
> > return 0;
> >
> > -err_netdev:
> > - unregister_netdev(netdev);
> > err_register:
> > ixgbe_release_hw_control(adapter);
> > ixgbe_clear_interrupt_scheme(adapter);
> > --
> > 2.14.4
> >
>
> Then we should check if err == -ENODEV, not outright ignore all potential
> errors, right?
>
Hm, it is weird to take -ENODEV as a no error.
How about just return 0 instead of -ENODEV in the following function?
<drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_phy.c>
902 s32 ixgbe_mii_bus_init(struct ixgbe_hw *hw)
903 {
.
.
.
913 switch (hw->device_id) {
914 /* C3000 SoCs */
915 case IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_A_KR:
916 case IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_A_KR_L:
917 case IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_A_SFP_N:
918 case IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_A_SGMII:
919 case IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_A_SGMII_L:
920 case IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_A_10G_T:
921 case IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_A_SFP:
922 case IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_A_1G_T:
923 case IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_A_1G_T_L:
924 if (!ixgbe_x550em_a_has_mii(hw))
925 return -ENODEV;
Thanks,
Yongxin
> Bartosz
