Re: [PATCH net] net: stmmac: platform: guarantee uniqueness of bus_id

["Abhishek Chauhan (ABC)" <quic_abchauha@quicinc.com>]

On 6/2/2025 2:38 AM, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> Hi Abhishek,
> 
> On 5/30/25 12:16 AM, Abhishek Chauhan (ABC) wrote:
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>> On 5/26/2025 1:26 PM, Paolo Abeni wrote:
>>> On 5/21/25 5:21 PM, Quentin Schulz wrote:
>>>> From: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
>>>>
>>>> bus_id is currently derived from the ethernetX alias. If one is missing
>>>> for the device, 0 is used. If ethernet0 points to another stmmac device
>>>> or if there are 2+ stmmac devices without an ethernet alias, then bus_id
>>>> will be 0 for all of those.
>>>>
>>>> This is an issue because the bus_id is used to generate the mdio bus id
>>>> (new_bus->id in drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_mdio.c
>>>> stmmac_mdio_register) and this needs to be unique.
>>>>
>>>> This allows to avoid needing to define ethernet aliases for devices with
>>>> multiple stmmac controllers (such as the Rockchip RK3588) for multiple
>>>> stmmac devices to probe properly.
>>>>
>>>> Obviously, the bus_id isn't guaranteed to be stable across reboots if no
>>>> alias is set for the device but that is easily fixed by simply adding an
>>>> alias if this is desired.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
>>>
>>> I think no need to CC stable here, but you need to provide a suitable
>>> fixes tag, thanks!
>>>
>> Quentin to make your life easy.
>> It fixes this patch
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1372930541-19409-1-git-send-email-srinivas.kandagatla@st.com/
>> dt:net:stmmac: Add support to dwmac version 3.610 and 3.710
>> It goes back in time to 2013 when this bus_id was introduced through dts
>>
> 
> Fortunately, we ended up finding the same "culprit" (see v2 of my patch that got merged[1] :) )
> 
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=eb7fd7aa35bfcc1e1fda4ecc42ccfcb526cdc780
> Nice!. Anyway i really like this fix because mdio creates a directory and if there are 2+ macs the directory creation will fail because 
two emac will have the same mdio directory names provided if someone forgets to mention alias in the dtsi. 
> Thanks!
> Quentin