The function phy_attach_direct attaches the phy and calls phy_init_hw.
phy_init_hw can fail, but the phy is still marked as attached. Successive
calls to phy_attach_direct will fail because the phy is busy.
[ 1.020000] eth0: Freescale FEC PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=1:00, irq=-1)
[ 1.030000] eth1: Freescale FEC PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=1:01, irq=-1)
[ 2.050000] Sending DHCP requests .
[ 3.020000] PHY: 1:00 - Link is Up - 100/Full
[ 5.110000] ..... timed out!
[ 87.660000] IP-Config: Reopening network devices...
[ 88.190000] FEC: MDIO read timeout
[ 88.190000] eth0: could not attach to PHY
[ 88.190000] IP-Config: Failed to open eth0
[ 88.210000] FEC: MDIO read timeout
[ 88.210000] eth1: could not attach to PHY
[ 88.210000] IP-Config: Failed to open eth1
[ 88.220000] IP-Config: No network devices available.
[ 88.220000] Freeing init memory: 6968K
[...]
starting network interfaces...
ip: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
[ 94.000000] net eth0: PHY already attached
[ 94.010000] eth0: could not attach to PHY
ip: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
This patch adds phy_detach to clean up if phy_init_hw fails.
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
u32 flags, phy_interface_t interface)
{
struct device *d = &phydev->dev;
+ int err;
/* Assume that if there is no driver, that it doesn't
* exist, and we should use the genphy driver. */
if (NULL == d->driver) {
- int err;
d->driver = &genphy_driver.driver;
err = d->driver->probe(d);
/* Do initial configuration here, now that
* we have certain key parameters
* (dev_flags and interface) */
- return phy_init_hw(phydev);
+ err = phy_init_hw(phydev);
+ if (err)
+ phy_detach(phydev);
+
+ return err;
}
/**