Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: qca8k: Disable mgmt Ethernet for qca8327

[Michał Kępień]

> > Could you please point me at the exact retry mechanism you had in mind,
> > either the qca8k one or the Marvell equivalent?  I cannot see any in
> > drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c.  If I'm reading qca8k code correctly,
> > when wait_for_completion_timeout() fails, its return value is just
> > bubbled up the call chain.
> 
> With the mv88e6xxx code, if ethernet times out, i repeated the request
> using MDIO. The code is not in mainline but a few users are using it.

Ah, that way, okay.  It looks like every mgmt Ethernet function in qca8k
has an MDIO fallback path, but I'll keep this in mind, thanks.

> At minimum, i would put a printk() there, and see if it happens.  It
> could be unrelated to your problem...

Ack, thanks.

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Best regards,
Michał Kępień