DPAA Ethernet traffice troubles with Linux kernel

[Joakim Tjernlund]

On Thu, 1970-01-01 at 00:00 +0000, Andrew Lunn wrote:
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> > Hi, just saw this and thought of a small patch I just wrote for mdio bus, o idea
> > if it is relevant but here goes:
> > 
> > From fe0b98d54a79779482700676331b4d10a0f3cada Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund at infinera.com>
> > Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:27:20 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] of_mdiobus_register: Continue after error
> > 
> > of_mdiobus_register unregister itself if one phy fails to register
> > which is bad for system having all its PHYs on the same MDIO bus.
> > Just log the error and continue with the remaining PHYs instead.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund at infinera.com>
> 
> Hi Joakim
> 
> You appear to be using an old kernel. Take a look at:

Not really, I am using 4.14.x and I don't think that is old. Seems like this
patch hasn't been sent to 4.14.x.

I wonder if I might be missing something else, we just moved to 4.14 and notic that all
our fixed PHYs are non functioning:
fsl_mac ffe4e2000.ethernet: FMan MEMAC
fsl_mac ffe4e2000.ethernet: FMan MAC address: 00:06:9c:0b:06:20
fsl_mac dpaa-ethernet.0: __devm_request_mem_region(mac) failed
fsl_mac: probe of dpaa-ethernet.0 failed with error -16
fsl_mac ffe4e4000.ethernet: FMan MEMAC
fsl_mac ffe4e4000.ethernet: FMan MAC address: 00:06:9c:0b:06:21
fsl_mac dpaa-ethernet.1: __devm_request_mem_region(mac) failed
fsl_mac: probe of dpaa-ethernet.1 failed with error -16
fsl_mac ffe4e6000.ethernet: FMan MEMAC
fsl_mac ffe4e6000.ethernet: FMan MAC address: 00:06:9c:0b:06:22
fsl_mac dpaa-ethernet.2: __devm_request_mem_region(mac) failed
fsl_mac: probe of dpaa-ethernet.2 failed with error -16
fsl_mac ffe4e8000.ethernet: FMan MEMAC
fsl_mac ffe4e8000.ethernet: FMan MAC address: 00:06:9c:0b:06:23
fsl_mac dpaa-ethernet.3: __devm_request_mem_region(mac) failed
fsl_mac: probe of dpaa-ethernet.3 failed with error -16

Feels like FMAN still think there are real PHYs there ?
> 
> commit 95f566de0269a0c59fd6a737a147731302136429
> Author: Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur at nxp.com>
> Date:   Tue Jan 9 14:43:34 2018 +0200
> 
>     of_mdio: avoid MDIO bus removal when a PHY is missing
> 
>     If one of the child devices is missing the of_mdiobus_register_phy()
>     call will return -ENODEV. When a missing device is encountered the
>     registration of the remaining PHYs is stopped and the MDIO bus will
>     fail to register. Propagate all errors except ENODEV to avoid it.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur at nxp.com>
>     Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
> 
> 
>     Andrew