Re: [PATCH v2 net] net: mdio-mux: fix C45 access returning -EIO after API change

From: Russell King (Oracle)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2023 - 14:57:24 EST


On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 05:31:44PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> The mii_bus API conversion to read_c45() and write_c45() did not cover
> the mdio-mux driver before read() and write() were made C22-only.
>
> This broke arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-qds-13bb.dtso.
> The -EOPNOTSUPP from mdiobus_c45_read() is transformed by
> get_phy_c45_devs_in_pkg() into -EIO, is further propagated to
> of_mdiobus_register() and this makes the mdio-mux driver fail to probe
> the entire child buses, not just the PHYs that cause access errors.
>
> Fix the regression by introducing special c45 read and write accessors
> to mdio-mux which forward the operation to the parent MDIO bus.
>
> Fixes: db1a63aed89c ("net: phy: Remove fallback to old C45 method")
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

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