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[184.96.154.59]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5614622812f47-4b2714dc18asm2556802b6e.17.2026.08.16.17.00.33 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:00:34 -0700 (PDT) From: James Hilliard Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] of: mdio: fix fw_devlink for Ethernet PHY packages Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:00:27 -0600 Message-Id: <20260816-submit-phy-package-fwdevlink-v1-v2-0-23e55dd59fad@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-B4-Tracking: v=1; b=H4sIAAAAAAAC/42OzQ6CMBCEX4Xs2ZpS/j35HoZDLVtYgUJoRQjh3 S34AiZzmczsfLuBxYnQwi3YYMKZLA3GG3EJQDXS1Mio8h4EFynPw5jZ97Mnx8ZmZaNUrfQN/al w7si0bA5ZlspcF6gxiQrwK+OEmpaT8ACDjhlcHJS/xI+9ULkDcHQbsm6Y1vOZOTwv/uZ6cSais MjjWPMkk/e6l9Rd1dBDue/7F8mzNk3qAAAA X-Change-ID: 20260814-submit-phy-package-fwdevlink-v1-76a8f9efe539 To: Rob Herring , Saravana Kannan , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Danilo Krummrich , Andrew Lunn , Christian Marangi , "David S. Miller" , Heiner Kallweit , Russell King , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, driver-core@lists.linux.dev, netdev@vger.kernel.org, James Hilliard X-Mailer: b4 0.15.2 Ethernet PHY package nodes describe resources shared by their member PHYs, but the package node is a container rather than a struct device. fw_devlink therefore represents those dependencies with temporary sync-state-only links from the closest existing ancestor device to each supplier. For OF MDIO, that ancestor is the MDIO bus class device. The bus is driverless, so its proxy links never reach the usual driver-bound cleanup. They can remain after all member PHYs have probed and indefinitely prevent suppliers from receiving sync_state(). Before fixing the proxy-link lifecycle, skip supplier links when a binding cannot resolve its consumer node. This prevents malformed graph descriptions from passing a NULL consumer to the fwnode-link core. Fix both parts of the lifecycle. First, factor the sync-state-only cleanup already performed by device_links_driver_bound() and expose it to frameworks which populate children below driverless devices. Next, treat each enabled member PHY as a consumer of suppliers referenced by its package node. Finally, call the cleanup helper after successful OF MDIO population. The real links from each member PHY retain dependency and runtime-PM ordering. This was found while validating an X-Powers AC300 package whose input clock is supplied by PWM. Before the fix, the PWM driver reported that sync_state() was pending due to stmmac-0 even after the PHY had probed. The complete fix was tested on an Allwinner H616 board with an X-Powers AC300 PHY package. All five real supplier links targeted the member PHY, and no proxy link remained on the driverless MDIO bus. The PWM supplier reached state_synced while continuing to generate the PHY clock. The PHY negotiated a 100 Mbps full-duplex link, 8 MiB was transferred in each direction, and 100 consecutive pings completed without loss. Validation completed with: - arm64 defconfig object builds of driver core, OF property and OF MDIO with W=1; - strict per-patch checkpatch checks; and - the H616/AC300 hardware test described above. Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol Signed-off-by: James Hilliard --- Changes in v2: - Add a preparatory guard for malformed graph consumers (reported by Sashiko) - Rebase on net-next/main - Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260814-submit-phy-package-fwdevlink-v1-v1-0-2319844f057a@gmail.com --- James Hilliard (4): of: property: skip links without a consumer node driver core: factor sync-state-only link cleanup of: property: link PHY package suppliers to member PHYs net: mdio: release fw_devlink proxies after population drivers/base/core.c | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- drivers/net/mdio/of_mdio.c | 5 +++- drivers/of/property.c | 18 ++++++++++- include/linux/device.h | 1 + 4 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) --- base-commit: e6a5d573d24cd375e09d24f136523cb3cc85c9d3 change-id: 20260814-submit-phy-package-fwdevlink-v1-76a8f9efe539 Best regards, -- James Hilliard