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I see you also work with the QCA833x switch. Your comments are welcome!

On 20. 02. 19 19:37, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
On 20.02.2019 16:02, Michal Vokáč wrote:
Hi,

Another issue in a row with networking on imx6dl-yapp4 platform [1]
that uses QCA8334 Ethernet switch.

Very recently, with Vinod and Andrew, we solved an issue with
RGMII_ID mode by patch[2][3]. I tested those with next-20190215
and it worked just fine.

The patch[2] was merged into next-20190220 so I tested the latest version.
Now the cpu port does not work again. I tracked it down to this commit
5502b218e001 ("net: phy: use phy_resolve_aneg_linkmode in
genphy_read_status") [4]

If I revert the offending commit, cpu port works fine. I suspect the
problem is on the qca8k driver side but I am not really sure.
AFAICT autonegotiation is not available on the QCA833x cpu port (MAC0).

Patch[4] only affects a code path with AUTONEG_ENABLE == phydev->autoneg.
IMO this shouldn't be the case for the cpu port (like you state).
Seems like somewhere a phydev->autoneg = AUTONEG_DISABLE is missing.

Not clear to me is where the difference with this patch comes from.
It would be helpful to know (w/o patch[4]):
- which values the register reads in genphy_read_status() return
- which bits are set in phydev->advertising

Hello Heiner,

just for the record, this is what I noted when debugging the issue
and planned to send before the weekend..

next-20190228 does not work because of different issue. I will create
another thread for that.

next-20190222 works fine even without 0f3b1cf23f0e ("net: phy: fix reading
fixed phy status")!

next-20190220 does not work. It seems there is some problem with fixed-link
handling and/or with how the switch indicates its autonegotiation capability.

To make the CPU port work with next-20190220, I can either do:
 - force genphy_read_status() to go the AUTONEG_ENABLE != phydev->autoneg
   path, or
 - prevent the qca8k_adjust_link() from writing into the switch registers.
   More details below.

1) Linux version next-20190220, with patch[4]

- genphy_config_init() reads CPU port MII_BMSR register, value: 0x12c
- The bit BMSR_ANEGCAPABLE is set (!?) and so the genphy_read_status()
  takes the AUTONEG_ENABLE == phydev->autoneg path.
- genphy_read_status() returns with phydev->advertising = 0x0
- qca8k_adjust_link() function is called.
- I can bring up the cpu port but it DOES NOT work.
- genphy_read_status() returns with phydev->advertising = 0x22e0
  (bit 13,9,7,6,5 set)
- If I remove the qca8k_write() in qca8k_adjust_link(), or remove
  the qca8k_adjust_link() totaly, the CPU port DOES work.
2) Linux version next-20190220, without patch[4]

- genphy_config_init() reads CPU port MII_BMSR register, value: 0x12c
- The bit BMSR_ANEGCAPABLE is set (!?) and so the genphy_read_status()
  takes the AUTONEG_ENABLE path.
- genphy_read_status() returns with phydev->advertising = 0x0
- The qca8k_adjust_link() function is called.
- I can bring up the cpu port and it DOES work.
- genphy_read_status() returns with phydev->advertising = 0x22e0
  (bit 13,9,7,6,5 set)

Not sure if this will be helpful in any way as it is related to the
now outdated versions next-20190220 and next-20190222.

Best regards,
Michal

Any ideas what may be the root cause of the problem?

Thank you,
Michal

[1] 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=87489ec3a77f3e01bcf0d46e353ae7112ec8c4f0
[2] 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=a968b5e9d5879f9535d6099505f9e14abcafb623
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1043817/
[4] 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=5502b218e001

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