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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux•org.uk>
Cc: Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@microchip•com>,
	linux-rpi-kernel@lists•infradead.org,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail•com>,
	Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse•de>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	Microchip Linux Driver Support <UNGLinuxDriver@microchip•com>,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom•com,
	Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@gmx•net>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: lan78xx and phy_state_machine
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:36:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191016153646.GG17013@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191015220925.GW25745@shell.armlinux.org.uk>

> > - lan78xx_phy_init() (incl. the call to phy_connect_direct()) is called
> >   after register_netdev(). This may cause races.
> 
> That isn't a problem.  We have lots of network device drivers that do
> this - in their open() function.

Hi Russell

Actually, here is it. lan7801_phy_init() finds the PHY device and
connects it to the MAC. lan78xx_open() calls phy_start(), with the
assumption lan7801_phy_init() has been called.

But the stack trace just provided shows this assumption is wrong. As
soon a register_netdev() is called, the kernel auto configuration is
kicking in and opening the device.

lan78xx_phy_init() needs to happen before register_netdev(), or inside
lan78xx_open().

	Andrew

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-16 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-14 14:06 lan78xx and phy_state_machine Daniel Wagner
2019-10-14 14:32 ` Daniel Wagner
2019-10-14 18:15   ` Stefan Wahren
2019-10-14 19:28     ` Daniel Wagner
2019-10-14 16:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-10-14 19:25   ` Daniel Wagner
2019-10-14 19:51     ` Stefan Wahren
2019-10-14 20:20       ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-10-14 22:12         ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-10-15 19:38           ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-10-15 22:09             ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-10-16 15:36               ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2019-10-16  5:48             ` Stefan Wahren
2019-10-15  0:14   ` Andrew Lunn
2019-10-14 23:53 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-10-15  0:53 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-10-15 17:16   ` Daniel Wagner
2019-10-16 14:25     ` Daniel Wagner
2019-10-16 15:51       ` Andrew Lunn
2019-10-17  6:52         ` Daniel Wagner
2019-10-17 13:15           ` Andrew Lunn
2019-10-17 17:05           ` Stefan Wahren
2019-10-17 17:41             ` Daniel Wagner
2019-10-17 17:52               ` Stefan Wahren
2019-10-17 18:14                 ` Daniel Wagner
2019-10-17 18:25                 ` Andrew Lunn

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