This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sfp: fix non-detection of PHY
to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: sfp-fix-non-detection-of-phy.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Thu Mar 22 14:03:39 CET 2018
From: Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 16:09:36 +0000 Subject: sfp: fix non-detection of PHY
From: Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk
[ Upstream commit 20b56ed9f8adfb9a7fb1c878878c54aa4ed645c1 ]
The detection of a PHY changed in commit e98a3aabf85f ("mdio_bus: don't return NULL from mdiobus_scan()") which now causes sfp to print an error message. Update for this change.
Fixes: 73970055450e ("sfp: add SFP module support") Signed-off-by: Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/phy/sfp.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c @@ -315,12 +315,12 @@ static void sfp_sm_probe_phy(struct sfp msleep(T_PHY_RESET_MS);
phy = mdiobus_scan(sfp->i2c_mii, SFP_PHY_ADDR); - if (IS_ERR(phy)) { - dev_err(sfp->dev, "mdiobus scan returned %ld\n", PTR_ERR(phy)); + if (phy == ERR_PTR(-ENODEV)) { + dev_info(sfp->dev, "no PHY detected\n"); return; } - if (!phy) { - dev_info(sfp->dev, "no PHY detected\n"); + if (IS_ERR(phy)) { + dev_err(sfp->dev, "mdiobus scan returned %ld\n", PTR_ERR(phy)); return; }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk are
queue-4.15/sfp-fix-non-detection-of-phy.patch queue-4.15/sfp-fix-eeprom-reading-in-the-case-of-non-sff8472-sfps.patch