[PATCH net v3 1/2] net: microchip: vcap: use port number instead of netdev name for debugfs

From: Daniel Machon

Date: Mon Aug 17 2026 - 11:56:17 EST


sparx5_vcap_init() runs before sparx5_register_netdevs() in probe, and
its debugfs setup calls vcap_port_debugfs() for every port using
netdev_name(ndev) as the debugfs file name. At that point the netdevs
have only been allocated, not registered, so dev->name still holds the
"eth%d" template and netdev_name() returns "(unnamed net_device)".
Every port tries to create the same file under vcaps/, producing a
flood of warnings at boot:

debugfs: '(unnamed net_device)' already exists in 'vcaps'
debugfs: '(unnamed net_device)' already exists in 'vcaps'
...

Add vcap_port_debugfs_portno(), a variant of vcap_port_debugfs() that
takes the port's stable hardware port number and uses "p%u" as the
debugfs file name instead of netdev_name(ndev). This makes the file
name independent of registration order; the file still stores and
later dereferences the netdev itself, same as before. sparx5 already
reports the same "p%d" string via ndo_get_phys_port_name(), so the
debugfs name now matches that.

Only sparx5 (and lan969x, which shares this code) is switched to the
new function. lan966x keeps calling vcap_port_debugfs() unchanged, so
this fix does not rename any of its existing debugfs files.

Fixes: b8909aad5b8d ("net: sparx5: move netdev and notifier block registration to probe")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Machon <daniel.machon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
.../ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_vcap_impl.c | 5 +++--
.../net/ethernet/microchip/vcap/vcap_api_debugfs.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
.../net/ethernet/microchip/vcap/vcap_api_debugfs.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_vcap_impl.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_vcap_impl.c
index cf332de6bf73..2dee2ce19fce 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_vcap_impl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_vcap_impl.c
@@ -2077,8 +2077,9 @@ int sparx5_vcap_init(struct sparx5 *sparx5)
dir = vcap_debugfs(sparx5->dev, sparx5->debugfs_root, ctrl);
for (idx = 0; idx < consts->n_ports; ++idx)
if (sparx5->ports[idx])
- vcap_port_debugfs(sparx5->dev, dir, ctrl,
- sparx5->ports[idx]->ndev);
+ vcap_port_debugfs_portno(sparx5->dev, dir, ctrl,
+ sparx5->ports[idx]->ndev,
+ sparx5->ports[idx]->portno);

return err;
}
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/vcap/vcap_api_debugfs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/vcap/vcap_api_debugfs.c
index e0c65c7ab23e..476f7496a9d4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/vcap/vcap_api_debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/vcap/vcap_api_debugfs.c
@@ -400,6 +400,27 @@ void vcap_port_debugfs(struct device *dev, struct dentry *parent,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vcap_port_debugfs);

+void vcap_port_debugfs_portno(struct device *dev,
+ struct dentry *parent,
+ struct vcap_control *vctrl,
+ struct net_device *ndev,
+ unsigned int portno)
+{
+ struct vcap_port_debugfs_info *info;
+ char name[16];
+
+ info = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*info), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!info)
+ return;
+
+ info->vctrl = vctrl;
+ info->ndev = ndev;
+
+ snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "p%u", portno);
+ debugfs_create_file(name, 0444, parent, info, &vcap_port_debugfs_fops);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vcap_port_debugfs_portno);
+
/* Show the full VCAP instance data (rules with all fields) */
static int vcap_debugfs_show(struct seq_file *m, void *unused)
{
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/vcap/vcap_api_debugfs.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/vcap/vcap_api_debugfs.h
index 9f2c59b5f6f5..7dc6e3411a4d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/vcap/vcap_api_debugfs.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/vcap/vcap_api_debugfs.h
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ void vcap_port_debugfs(struct device *dev, struct dentry *parent,
struct vcap_control *vctrl,
struct net_device *ndev);

+void vcap_port_debugfs_portno(struct device *dev,
+ struct dentry *parent,
+ struct vcap_control *vctrl,
+ struct net_device *ndev,
+ unsigned int portno);
+
/* Create a debugFS entry for a vcap instance */
struct dentry *vcap_debugfs(struct device *dev, struct dentry *parent,
struct vcap_control *vctrl);
@@ -30,6 +36,14 @@ static inline void vcap_port_debugfs(struct device *dev, struct dentry *parent,
{
}

+static inline void vcap_port_debugfs_portno(struct device *dev,
+ struct dentry *parent,
+ struct vcap_control *vctrl,
+ struct net_device *ndev,
+ unsigned int portno)
+{
+}
+
static inline struct dentry *vcap_debugfs(struct device *dev,
struct dentry *parent,
struct vcap_control *vctrl)

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