[PATCH net v2] net: mdio: aspeed: Add dummy read for fire control

[Andrew Lunn]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 05:51:41PM +0800, Jacky Chou wrote:
> When the command bus is sometimes busy, it may cause the command is not
> arrived to MDIO controller immediately. On software, the driver issues a
> write command to the command bus does not wait for command complete and
> it returned back to code immediately. But a read command will wait for
> the data back, once a read command was back indicates the previous write
> command had arrived to controller.
> Add a dummy read to ensure triggering mdio controller before starting
> polling the status of mdio controller to avoid polling unexpected timeout.

Please have another attempt at writing the commit message.

> Fixes: a9770eac511a ("net: mdio: Move MDIO drivers into a new subdirectory")
> Signed-off-by: Jacky Chou <jacky_chou at aspeedtech.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/mdio/mdio-aspeed.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-aspeed.c b/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-aspeed.c
> index c2170650415c..373902d33b96 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-aspeed.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-aspeed.c
> @@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ static int aspeed_mdio_op(struct mii_bus *bus, u8 st, u8 op, u8 phyad, u8 regad,
>  		| FIELD_PREP(ASPEED_MDIO_DATA_MIIRDATA, data);
>  
>  	iowrite32(ctrl, ctx->base + ASPEED_MDIO_CTRL);
> +	/* Add dummy read to ensure triggering mdio controller */
> +	(void)ioread32(ctx->base + ASPEED_MDIO_CTRL);

Maybe: /* Dummy read to flush previous write to controller */


    Andrew

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