Re: [PATCH net-next] net: e100: replace silent 'hope for the best' with debug message

From: kernel test robot

Date: Thu May 21 2026 - 09:46:47 EST


Hi Ashwin,

kernel test robot noticed the following build warnings:

[auto build test WARNING on net-next/main]

url: https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Ashwin-Gundarapu/net-e100-replace-silent-hope-for-the-best-with-debug-message/20260521-141158
base: net-next/main
patch link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/19e49280392.4757403170773.5767589851918809405%40zohomail.in
patch subject: [PATCH net-next] net: e100: replace silent 'hope for the best' with debug message
config: x86_64-defconfig (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260521/202605212136.lOMqj24O-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
compiler: gcc-14 (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260521/202605212136.lOMqj24O-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/reproduce)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202605212136.lOMqj24O-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c: In function 'e100_phy_init':
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1455:17: warning: this 'if' clause does not guard... [-Wmisleading-indentation]
1455 | if (e100_phy_check_without_mii(nic))
| ^~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1458:25: note: ...this statement, but the latter is misleadingly indented as if it were guarded by the 'if'
1458 | return 0;
| ^~~~~~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1459:17: error: expected '}' before 'else'
1459 | else {
| ^~~~
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1439:39: warning: unused variable 'cong' [-Wunused-variable]
1439 | u16 bmcr, stat, id_lo, id_hi, cong;
| ^~~~
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1439:32: warning: unused variable 'id_hi' [-Wunused-variable]
1439 | u16 bmcr, stat, id_lo, id_hi, cong;
| ^~~~~
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1439:25: warning: unused variable 'id_lo' [-Wunused-variable]
1439 | u16 bmcr, stat, id_lo, id_hi, cong;
| ^~~~~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c: At top level:
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1465:11: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'else'
1465 | } else
| ^~~~
In file included from include/linux/skbuff.h:39,
from include/net/net_namespace.h:44,
from include/linux/netdevice.h:38,
from drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:140:
include/net/net_debug.h:88:3: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'while'
88 | } while (0)
| ^~~~~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1466:17: note: in expansion of macro 'netif_printk'
1466 | netif_printk(nic, hw, KERN_DEBUG, nic->netdev,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1470:9: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
1470 | id_lo = mdio_read(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id, MII_PHYSID1);
| ^~~~~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1470:9: error: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'id_lo' [-Wimplicit-int]
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1470:27: error: 'netdev' undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean 'net_eq'?
1470 | id_lo = mdio_read(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id, MII_PHYSID1);
| ^~~~~~
| net_eq
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1470:35: error: 'nic' undeclared here (not in a function)
1470 | id_lo = mdio_read(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id, MII_PHYSID1);
| ^~~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1471:9: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
1471 | id_hi = mdio_read(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id, MII_PHYSID2);
| ^~~~~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1471:9: error: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'id_hi' [-Wimplicit-int]
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1472:12: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '->' token
1472 | nic->phy = (u32)id_hi << 16 | (u32)id_lo;
| ^~
include/net/net_debug.h:85:1: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'do'
85 | do { \
| ^~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1473:9: note: in expansion of macro 'netif_printk'
1473 | netif_printk(nic, hw, KERN_DEBUG, nic->netdev,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
include/net/net_debug.h:88:3: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'while'
88 | } while (0)
| ^~~~~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1473:9: note: in expansion of macro 'netif_printk'
1473 | netif_printk(nic, hw, KERN_DEBUG, nic->netdev,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1477:9: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'for'
1477 | for (addr = 0; addr < 32; addr++) {
| ^~~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1477:29: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '<' token
1477 | for (addr = 0; addr < 32; addr++) {
| ^
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1477:39: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '++' token
1477 | for (addr = 0; addr < 32; addr++) {
| ^~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1491:9: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'if'
1491 | if (nic->phy == phy_82552_v)
| ^~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1497:9: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'if'
1497 | if ((nic->phy & NCS_PHY_MODEL_MASK) == phy_nsc_tx) {
| ^~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1505:9: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'if'
1505 | if (nic->phy == phy_82552_v) {
| ^~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1519:11: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'else'
1519 | } else if ((nic->mac >= mac_82550_D102) || ((nic->flags & ich) &&
| ^~~~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1527:9: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'return'
1527 | return 0;
| ^~~~~~
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:1528:1: error: expected identifier or '(' before '}' token
1528 | }
| ^
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c:958:12: warning: 'mdio_ctrl_phy_82552_v' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
958 | static u16 mdio_ctrl_phy_82552_v(struct nic *nic,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


vim +/if +1455 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c

720017623ab294b drivers/net/e100.c Andreas Mohr 2009-06-10 1430
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1431 #define NCONFIG_AUTO_SWITCH 0x0080
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1432 #define MII_NSC_CONG MII_RESV1
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1433 #define NSC_CONG_ENABLE 0x0100
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1434 #define NSC_CONG_TXREADY 0x0400
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1435 static int e100_phy_init(struct nic *nic)
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1436 {
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1437 struct net_device *netdev = nic->netdev;
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1438 u32 addr;
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 @1439 u16 bmcr, stat, id_lo, id_hi, cong;
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1440
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1441 /* Discover phy addr by searching addrs in order {1,0,2,..., 31} */
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1442 for (addr = 0; addr < 32; addr++) {
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1443 nic->mii.phy_id = (addr == 0) ? 1 : (addr == 1) ? 0 : addr;
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1444 bmcr = mdio_read(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id, MII_BMCR);
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1445 stat = mdio_read(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id, MII_BMSR);
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1446 stat = mdio_read(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id, MII_BMSR);
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1447 if (!((bmcr == 0xFFFF) || ((stat == 0) && (bmcr == 0))))
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1448 break;
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1449 }
720017623ab294b drivers/net/e100.c Andreas Mohr 2009-06-10 1450 if (addr == 32) {
720017623ab294b drivers/net/e100.c Andreas Mohr 2009-06-10 1451 /* uhoh, no PHY detected: check whether we seem to be some
720017623ab294b drivers/net/e100.c Andreas Mohr 2009-06-10 1452 * weird, rare variant which is *known* to not have any MII.
720017623ab294b drivers/net/e100.c Andreas Mohr 2009-06-10 1453 * But do this AFTER MII checking only, since this does
720017623ab294b drivers/net/e100.c Andreas Mohr 2009-06-10 1454 * lookup of EEPROM values which may easily be unreliable. */
720017623ab294b drivers/net/e100.c Andreas Mohr 2009-06-10 @1455 if (e100_phy_check_without_mii(nic))
e95e8b2860fba4c drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c Ashwin Gundarapu 2026-05-10 1456 netif_dbg(nic, probe, nic->netdev,
e95e8b2860fba4c drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c Ashwin Gundarapu 2026-05-10 1457 "No MII PHY detected, continuing anyway\n");
e95e8b2860fba4c drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c Ashwin Gundarapu 2026-05-10 @1458 return 0;
720017623ab294b drivers/net/e100.c Andreas Mohr 2009-06-10 @1459 else {
720017623ab294b drivers/net/e100.c Andreas Mohr 2009-06-10 1460 /* for unknown cases log a fatal error */
fa05e1ad1b61b37 drivers/net/e100.c Joe Perches 2010-03-16 1461 netif_err(nic, hw, nic->netdev,
fa05e1ad1b61b37 drivers/net/e100.c Joe Perches 2010-03-16 1462 "Failed to locate any known PHY, aborting\n");
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1463 return -EAGAIN;
720017623ab294b drivers/net/e100.c Andreas Mohr 2009-06-10 1464 }
720017623ab294b drivers/net/e100.c Andreas Mohr 2009-06-10 1465 } else
fa05e1ad1b61b37 drivers/net/e100.c Joe Perches 2010-03-16 1466 netif_printk(nic, hw, KERN_DEBUG, nic->netdev,
fa05e1ad1b61b37 drivers/net/e100.c Joe Perches 2010-03-16 1467 "phy_addr = %d\n", nic->mii.phy_id);
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1468
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1469 /* Get phy ID */
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 @1470 id_lo = mdio_read(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id, MII_PHYSID1);
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1471 id_hi = mdio_read(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id, MII_PHYSID2);
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1472 nic->phy = (u32)id_hi << 16 | (u32)id_lo;
fa05e1ad1b61b37 drivers/net/e100.c Joe Perches 2010-03-16 1473 netif_printk(nic, hw, KERN_DEBUG, nic->netdev,
fa05e1ad1b61b37 drivers/net/e100.c Joe Perches 2010-03-16 1474 "phy ID = 0x%08X\n", nic->phy);
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1475
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1476 /* Select the phy and isolate the rest */
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1477 for (addr = 0; addr < 32; addr++) {
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1478 if (addr != nic->mii.phy_id) {
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1479 mdio_write(netdev, addr, MII_BMCR, BMCR_ISOLATE);
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1480 } else if (nic->phy != phy_82552_v) {
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1481 bmcr = mdio_read(netdev, addr, MII_BMCR);
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1482 mdio_write(netdev, addr, MII_BMCR,
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1483 bmcr & ~BMCR_ISOLATE);
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1484 }
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1485 }
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1486 /*
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1487 * Workaround for 82552:
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1488 * Clear the ISOLATE bit on selected phy_id last (mirrored on all
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1489 * other phy_id's) using bmcr value from addr discovery loop above.
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1490 */
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1491 if (nic->phy == phy_82552_v)
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1492 mdio_write(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id, MII_BMCR,
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1493 bmcr & ~BMCR_ISOLATE);
8fbd962e39517df drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-10-29 1494
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1495 /* Handle National tx phys */
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1496 #define NCS_PHY_MODEL_MASK 0xFFF0FFFF
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1497 if ((nic->phy & NCS_PHY_MODEL_MASK) == phy_nsc_tx) {
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1498 /* Disable congestion control */
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1499 cong = mdio_read(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id, MII_NSC_CONG);
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1500 cong |= NSC_CONG_TXREADY;
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1501 cong &= ~NSC_CONG_ENABLE;
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1502 mdio_write(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id, MII_NSC_CONG, cong);
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1503 }
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1504
b55de80e4989200 drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-03-21 1505 if (nic->phy == phy_82552_v) {
b55de80e4989200 drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-03-21 1506 u16 advert = mdio_read(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id, MII_ADVERTISE);
b55de80e4989200 drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-03-21 1507
720017623ab294b drivers/net/e100.c Andreas Mohr 2009-06-10 1508 /* assign special tweaked mdio_ctrl() function */
720017623ab294b drivers/net/e100.c Andreas Mohr 2009-06-10 1509 nic->mdio_ctrl = mdio_ctrl_phy_82552_v;
720017623ab294b drivers/net/e100.c Andreas Mohr 2009-06-10 1510
b55de80e4989200 drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-03-21 1511 /* Workaround Si not advertising flow-control during autoneg */
b55de80e4989200 drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-03-21 1512 advert |= ADVERTISE_PAUSE_CAP | ADVERTISE_PAUSE_ASYM;
b55de80e4989200 drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-03-21 1513 mdio_write(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id, MII_ADVERTISE, advert);
b55de80e4989200 drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-03-21 1514
b55de80e4989200 drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-03-21 1515 /* Reset for the above changes to take effect */
b55de80e4989200 drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-03-21 1516 bmcr = mdio_read(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id, MII_BMCR);
b55de80e4989200 drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-03-21 1517 bmcr |= BMCR_RESET;
b55de80e4989200 drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-03-21 1518 mdio_write(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id, MII_BMCR, bmcr);
b55de80e4989200 drivers/net/e100.c Bruce Allan 2009-03-21 @1519 } else if ((nic->mac >= mac_82550_D102) || ((nic->flags & ich) &&
60ffa478759f39a drivers/net/e100.c Jeff Kirsher 2006-08-16 1520 (mdio_read(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id, MII_TPISTATUS) & 0x8000) &&
d4ef55288aa2e1b drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c Jesse Brandeburg 2021-03-25 1521 (le16_to_cpu(nic->eeprom[eeprom_cnfg_mdix]) & eeprom_mdix_enabled))) {
60ffa478759f39a drivers/net/e100.c Jeff Kirsher 2006-08-16 1522 /* enable/disable MDI/MDI-X auto-switching. */
60ffa478759f39a drivers/net/e100.c Jeff Kirsher 2006-08-16 1523 mdio_write(netdev, nic->mii.phy_id, MII_NCONFIG,
60ffa478759f39a drivers/net/e100.c Jeff Kirsher 2006-08-16 1524 nic->mii.force_media ? 0 : NCONFIG_AUTO_SWITCH);
648951451e6d2d5 drivers/net/e100.c Malli Chilakala 2005-06-17 1525 }
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1526
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1527 return 0;
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1528 }
^1da177e4c3f415 drivers/net/e100.c Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 1529

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