[PATCH] net: phy: allow scanning busses with missing phys

From: Alexandre Belloni
Date: Tue Apr 24 2018 - 12:09:14 EST


Some MDIO busses will error out when trying to read a phy address with no
phy present at that address. In that case, probing the bus will fail
because __mdiobus_register() is scanning the bus for all possible phys
addresses.

In case MII_PHYSID1 returns -EIO or -ENODEV, consider there is no phy at
this address and set the phy ID to 0xffffffff which is then properly
handled in get_phy_device().

Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index ac23322a32e1..9e4ba8e80a18 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -535,8 +535,17 @@ static int get_phy_id(struct mii_bus *bus, int addr, u32 *phy_id,

/* Grab the bits from PHYIR1, and put them in the upper half */
phy_reg = mdiobus_read(bus, addr, MII_PHYSID1);
- if (phy_reg < 0)
+ if (phy_reg < 0) {
+ /* if there is no device, return without an error so scanning
+ * the bus works properly
+ */
+ if (phy_reg == -EIO || phy_reg == -ENODEV) {
+ *phy_id = 0xffffffff;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
return -EIO;
+ }

*phy_id = (phy_reg & 0xffff) << 16;

--
2.17.0