Hello,

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 09:37:11PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:

[    9.366256] libphy: ethoc-mdio: probed
[    9.367389]  (null): could not attach to PHY
[    9.368555]  (null): failed to probe MDIO bus
[    9.371540] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000001c
[    9.371540]  pc = d0320926, ra = 903209d1
[    9.375358] Oops: sig: 11 [#1]
[    9.376081] PREEMPT
[    9.377080] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.6.0-next-20160517 #1
[    9.378397] task: d7c2c000 ti: d7c30000 task.ti: d7c30000
[    9.379394] a00: 903209d1 d7c31bd0 d7fb5810 00000001 00000000 00000000 d7f45c00 d7c31bd0
[    9.382298] a08: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00060100 d04b0c10 d7f45dfc d7c31bb0
[    9.385732] pc: d0320926, ps: 00060110, depc: 00000018, excvaddr: 0000001c
[    9.387061] lbeg: d0322e35, lend: d0322e57 lcount: 00000000, sar: 00000011
[    9.388173]
Stack: d7c31be0 00060700 d7f45c00 d7c31bd0 9021d509 d7c31c30 d7f45c00 00000000
       d0485dcc d0485dcc d7fb5810 d7c2c000 00000000 d7c31c30 d7f45c00 d025befc
       d0485dcc d7c30000 d7f45c34 d7c31bf0 9021c985 d7c31c50 d7f45c00 d7f45c34
[    9.396652] Call Trace:
[    9.397469]  [<d021d4d9>] __device_release_driver+0x7d/0x98
[    9.398869]  [<d021d509>] device_release_driver+0x15/0x20
[    9.400247]  [<d021c985>] bus_remove_device+0xc1/0xd4
[    9.401569]  [<d021a935>] device_del+0x109/0x15c
[    9.402794]  [<d025c3f9>] phy_mdio_device_remove+0xd/0x18
[    9.404124]  [<d025d264>] mdiobus_unregister+0x40/0x5c
[    9.405444]  [<d025ff44>] ethoc_probe+0x534/0x5b8
[    9.406742]  [<d021e2e0>] platform_drv_probe+0x28/0x48
[    9.408122]  [<d021d1e5>] driver_probe_device+0x101/0x234
[    9.409499]  [<d021d395>] __driver_attach+0x7d/0x98
[    9.410809]  [<d021bd80>] bus_for_each_dev+0x30/0x5c
[    9.412104]  [<d021cdf0>] driver_attach+0x14/0x18
[    9.413385]  [<d021ca61>] bus_add_driver+0xc9/0x198
[    9.414686]  [<d021d7d4>] driver_register+0x70/0xa0
[    9.416001]  [<d021e2b4>] __platform_driver_register+0x24/0x28
[    9.417463]  [<d04a1d34>] ethoc_driver_init+0x10/0x14
[    9.418824]  [<d00032c8>] do_one_initcall+0x80/0x1ac
[    9.420083]  [<d049386d>] kernel_init_freeable+0x131/0x198
[    9.421504]  [<d03236e8>] kernel_init+0xc/0xb0
[    9.422693]  [<d000482c>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x8/0xc

Guenter, can you please test if the following patch fixes your setup:

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index 307f72a0f2e2..efa85fb31574 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c

@@ -1573,14 +1573,14 @@ static int phy_probe(struct device *dev)
 	int err = 0;
 	struct gpio_descs *reset_gpios;
 
-	phydev->drv = phydrv;
-
 	/* take phy out of reset */
 	reset_gpios = devm_gpiod_get_array_optional(dev, "reset",
 						    GPIOD_OUT_LOW);
 	if (IS_ERR(reset_gpios))
 		return PTR_ERR(reset_gpios);
 
+	phydev->drv = phydrv;
+
 	/* Disable the interrupt if the PHY doesn't support it
 	 * but the interrupt is still a valid one
 	 */

This doesn't make your ethernet work, but at least the driver should
fail in a clean way.

Together with enabling GPIOLIB this should put ethernet in a working
state again.

Best regards
Uwe

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