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authorHauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>2020-03-02 00:55:02 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-03-03 18:01:33 -0800
commit20d8bb0d172d87dcc52727cb7174ae9994de8978 (patch)
tree0b19b516e27540f5753fc2142a45f4329682294f
parentnet: phy: bcm63xx: fix OOPS due to missing driver name (diff)
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phylink: Improve error message when validate failed
This should improve the error message when the PHY validate in the MAC driver failed. I ran into this problem multiple times that I put wrong interface values into the device tree and was searching why it is failing with -22 (-EINVAL). This should make it easier to spot the problem. Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/phy/phylink.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
index 70b9a143db84..6e66b8e77ec7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
@@ -761,8 +761,14 @@ static int phylink_bringup_phy(struct phylink *pl, struct phy_device *phy,
config.interface = interface;
ret = phylink_validate(pl, supported, &config);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
+ phylink_warn(pl, "validation of %s with support %*pb and advertisement %*pb failed: %d\n",
+ phy_modes(config.interface),
+ __ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_MASK_NBITS, phy->supported,
+ __ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_MASK_NBITS, config.advertising,
+ ret);
return ret;
+ }
phy->phylink = pl;
phy->phy_link_change = phylink_phy_change;