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SubjectRe: [PATCH] net: bcmgenet: Fix attaching to PYH failed on RPi 4B
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On 6/21/21 9:37 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 6/21/21 6:09 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 06:33:11PM +0800, Jian-Hong Pan wrote:
>>> The Broadcom UniMAC MDIO bus comes too late. So, GENET cannot find the
>>> ethernet PHY on UniMAC MDIO bus. This leads GENET fail to attach the
>>> PHY.
>>>
>>> bcmgenet fd580000.ethernet: GENET 5.0 EPHY: 0x0000
>>> ...
>>> could not attach to PHY
>>> bcmgenet fd580000.ethernet eth0: failed to connect to PHY
>>> uart-pl011 fe201000.serial: no DMA platform data
>>> libphy: bcmgenet MII bus: probed
>>> ...
>>> unimac-mdio unimac-mdio.-19: Broadcom UniMAC MDIO bus
>>>
>>> This patch makes GENET try to connect the PHY up to 3 times. Also, waits
>>> a while between each time for mdio-bcm-unimac module's loading and
>>> probing.
>>
>> Don't loop. Return -EPROBE_DEFER. The driver core will then probed the
>> driver again later, by which time, the MDIO bus driver should of
>> probed.
>
> This is unlikely to work because GENET register the mdio-bcm-unimac
> platform device so we will likely run into a chicken and egg problem,
> though surprisingly I have not seen this on STB platforms where GENET is
> used, I will try building everything as a module like you do. Can you
> see if the following helps:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-unimac.c
> b/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-unimac.c
> index bfc9be23c973..d1844ef3724a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-unimac.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-unimac.c
> @@ -351,6 +351,7 @@ static struct platform_driver unimac_mdio_driver = {
> .pm = &unimac_mdio_pm_ops,
> },
> .probe = unimac_mdio_probe,
> + .probe_type = PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS,
> .remove = unimac_mdio_remove,
> };
> module_platform_driver(unimac_mdio_driver);

This won't build try this instead:

diff --git a/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-unimac.c
b/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-unimac.c
index bfc9be23c973..53fecb53cd65 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-unimac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-unimac.c
@@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ static struct platform_driver unimac_mdio_driver = {
.name = UNIMAC_MDIO_DRV_NAME,
.of_match_table = unimac_mdio_ids,
.pm = &unimac_mdio_pm_ops,
+ .probe_type = PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS,
},
.probe = unimac_mdio_probe,
.remove = unimac_mdio_remove,
--
Florian
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