[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] net: abort network initialization if the PHY driver fails

[Tabi Timur-B04825]

Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:

>> diff --git a/drivers/net/fec_mxc.c b/drivers/net/fec_mxc.c
>> index eee41d7..7a3d16b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/fec_mxc.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/fec_mxc.c
>> @@ -510,7 +510,12 @@ static int fec_open(struct eth_device *edev)
>>                  fec_eth_phy_config(edev);
>>          if (fec->phydev) {
>>                  /* Start up the PHY */
>> -               phy_startup(fec->phydev);
>> +               int ret = phy_startup(fec->phydev);
>> +               if (ret) {
>> +                       printf("Could not initialize PHY %s\n",
>> +                              fm_eth->phydev->dev->name);
>
> Probably this is fec, not fm_eth.

Thanks.  I thought I was being diligent, and I ran MAKEALL, but I guess it 
wasn't enough.

>> diff --git a/drivers/net/xilinx_axi_emac.c b/drivers/net/xilinx_axi_emac.c
>> index 7854a04..d777144 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/xilinx_axi_emac.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/xilinx_axi_emac.c
>> @@ -272,7 +272,11 @@ static int setup_phy(struct eth_device *dev)
>>          phydev->advertising = phydev->supported;
>>          priv->phydev = phydev;
>>          phy_config(phydev);
>> -       phy_startup(phydev);
>> +       if (phy_startup(phydev)) {
>> +               printf("axiemac: could not initialize PHY %s\n",
>> +                      phydev->dev->name);
>> +               return 0;
>> +       }
>>
>>          switch (phydev->speed) {
>>          case 1000:
>
> Why doesn't this driver use a ret variable?
> Other driver's patch used this.

Because setup_phy() returns either 0 (failure) or 1 (success).

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale