octeon: honor disabled sgmii device tree nodes
authorRoman Kuzmitskii <damex.pp@icloud.com>
Sun, 1 Nov 2020 20:46:05 +0000 (20:46 +0000)
committerDaniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Thu, 5 Nov 2020 19:29:48 +0000 (19:29 +0000)
adds patch to octeon ethernet driver that lets sgmii interface
device tree node to be disabled and that disabled interface
won't be unnecessarily initialized.

It solves the problem with octeon boards that have 8 sgmii or more ports
initialized but have nothing connected to them.

Tested-by: Johannes Kimmel <fff@bareminimum.eu>
Signed-off-by: Roman Kuzmitskii <damex.pp@icloud.com>
target/linux/octeon/patches-5.4/701-honor_sgmii_node_device_tree_status.patch [new file with mode: 0644]

diff --git a/target/linux/octeon/patches-5.4/701-honor_sgmii_node_device_tree_status.patch b/target/linux/octeon/patches-5.4/701-honor_sgmii_node_device_tree_status.patch
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..af223dc
--- /dev/null
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From: Roman Kuzmitskii <damex.pp@icloud.com>
+Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2020 19:00:00 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] staging: octeon: sgmii to honor disabled dt node status
+
+With this patch, sgmii interface device tree node could be disabled and
+that disabled interface will not be unnecessarily initialized.
+
+It solves the problem with Octeon boards that have 8 sgmii or more ports
+initialized but have nothing connected to them.
+
+Tested-by: Johannes Kimmel <fff@bareminimum.eu>
+Signed-off-by: Roman Kuzmitskii <damex.pp@icloud.com>
+--- a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c
++++ b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c
+@@ -884,8 +884,10 @@
+                       case CVMX_HELPER_INTERFACE_MODE_SGMII:
+                               priv->phy_mode = PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_SGMII;
+-                              dev->netdev_ops = &cvm_oct_sgmii_netdev_ops;
+-                              strscpy(dev->name, "eth%d", sizeof(dev->name));
++                              if (of_device_is_available(priv->of_node)) {
++                                      dev->netdev_ops = &cvm_oct_sgmii_netdev_ops;
++                                      strscpy(dev->name, "eth%d", sizeof(dev->name));
++                              }
+                               break;
+                       case CVMX_HELPER_INTERFACE_MODE_SPI: