Re: [PATCH 07/12] net: ll_temac: Support indirect_mutex share within TEMAC IP

[Andrew Lunn]

> For OF devices, the xlnx,compound parent of the temac node should be
> used to find siblings, and setup a shared indirect_mutex between them.
> I will leave this work to somebody else, as I don't have hardware to
> test that.  No regression is introduced by that, as before this commit
> using two Ethernet interfaces in same TEMAC block is simply broken.

Is that true?

> @@ -1092,7 +1092,16 @@ static int temac_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	lp->dev = &pdev->dev;
>  	lp->options = XTE_OPTION_DEFAULTS;
>  	spin_lock_init(&lp->rx_lock);
> -	mutex_init(&lp->indirect_mutex);
> +
> +	/* Setup mutex for synchronization of indirect register access */
> +	if (pdata) {
> +		if (!pdata->indirect_mutex) {
> +			dev_err(&pdev->dev,
> +				"indirect_mutex missing in platform_data\n");
> +			return -EINVAL;
> +		}
> +		lp->indirect_mutex = pdata->indirect_mutex;
> +	}

In the OF case, isn't lp->indirect_mutex now a NULL pointer, where as
before it was a valid mutex?

Or did i miss something somewhere?

   Andrew