Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: ibm: emac: some cleanups and devm

[Rosen Penev]

On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 1:00 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 11:15:09AM -0700, Rosen Penev wrote:
> > It's a very old driver with a lot of potential for cleaning up code to
> > modern standards. This was a simple one dealing with mostly the probe
> > function and adding some devm to it.
> >
> > All patches were tested on a Cisco Meraki MX60W. Boot and
> > Shutdown/Reboot showed no warnings.
>
> This is a 12 year old PowerPC system. Cool you found one. Looks like
> OpenWRT still supports it.
I recently bought one in an attempt to get qca8k working on it.
Unfortunately the bootloader disables all ports except WAN and the
driver has a hack that disables MDIO 0-3, which qca8k seems to need. I
tried removing it but then mdiobus_alloc fails with error code -5.

qca8k only manages to bring up port 5 (WAN).
>
>         Andrwq