Re: [RFC PATCH net 5/5] net: dsa: xrs700x: be compatible with masters which unregister on shutdown

[Florian Fainelli]

On 9/12/2021 5:09 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> Since commit 2f1e8ea726e9 ("net: dsa: link interfaces with the DSA
> master to get rid of lockdep warnings"), DSA gained a requirement which
> it did not fulfill, which is to unlink itself from the DSA master at
> shutdown time.
>
> Since the Arrow SpeedChips XRS700x driver was introduced after the bad
> commit, it has never worked with DSA masters which decide to unregister
> their net_device on shutdown, effectively hanging the reboot process.
> To fix that, we need to call dsa_switch_shutdown.
>
> These devices can be connected by I2C or by MDIO, and if I search for
> I2C or MDIO bus drivers that implement their ->shutdown by redirecting
> it to ->remove I don't see any, however this does not mean it would not
> be possible. To be compatible with that pattern, it is necessary to
> implement an "if this then not that" scheme, to avoid ->remove and
> ->shutdown from being called both for the same struct device.
>
> Fixes: ee00b24f32eb ("net: dsa: add Arrow SpeedChips XRS700x driver")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210909095324.12978-1-LinoSanfilippo@xxxxxx/
> Reported-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
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Florian