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SubjectRe: [PATCH net] net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Do not register slave MDIO bus with OF
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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2020 14:35:17 -0700

> We were registering our slave MDIO bus with OF and doing so with
> assigning the newly created slave_mii_bus of_node to the master MDIO bus
> controller node. This is a bad thing to do for a number of reasons:
>
> - we are completely lying about the slave MII bus is arranged and yet we
> still want to control which MDIO devices it probes. It was attempted
> before to play tricks with the bus_mask to perform that:
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg429420.html but the approach
> was rightfully rejected
>
> - the device_node reference counting is messed up and we are effectively
> doing a double probe on the devices we already probed using the
> master, this messes up all resources reference counts (such as clocks)
>
> The proper fix for this as indicated by David in his reply to the
> thread above is to use a platform data style registration so as to
> control exactly which devices we probe:
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg430083.html
>
> By using mdiobus_register(), our slave_mii_bus->phy_mask value is used
> as intended, and all the PHY addresses that must be redirected towards
> our slave MDIO bus is happening while other addresses get redirected
> towards the master MDIO bus.
>
> Fixes: 461cd1b03e32 ("net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Register our slave MDIO bus")
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.

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