Re: [PATCH net-next] net: fec: Always call fec_restart() in resume path

From: John Ernberg
Date: Wed Feb 14 2024 - 03:27:26 EST


On 2/14/24 03:44, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:50:30 +0000 John Ernberg wrote:
>> Tested on 6.1 kernel and forward ported. I discovered this when we
>> upgraded from 5.10 to 6.1, but the resume path in the FEC driver has had
>> this imbalance since at least 2009.
>>
>> This is also why I target the -next tree, I can't identify a proper commit
>> to blame with a Fixes. Let me know if this should be the net tree anyway.
>
> I thought you bisected it to one or two specific changes?
> I'd put those down as Fixes tags and target net.

Hi Jakub,

You are correct, we thought so too at [1], but bisection is really hard
because we need a whole bunch of patches on top to even boot the system
(imx8qxp specific stuff in the NXP vendor tree that's difficult to
rebase), we left it a bit open ended.

Over the course of the weekend I lost all confidence in my bisection
after being confident for 4-5 days, because the more I thought about it
the less it made sense for that commit to be the culprit.

I should probably have both followed up on that mail with that, and been
clearer here. I apologize for failing that.

Best regards // John Ernberg

[1]:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1f45bdbe-eab1-4e59-8f24-add177590d27@xxxxxxxx/