From: Matheus Alves de Almeida <matheus.aalmeida@inf.ufrgs.br>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
nic_swsd@realtek.com, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] r8169: release firmware on application failure
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:15:00 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ee3cd8a9a299d504fc95ba86a3f387a@inf.ufrgs.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe23c6bb-2cdf-4641-aae8-25b03b38be42@lunn.ch>
> If the firmware cannot be written, is the device dead? Should this
> return an error, so the caller can abort the probe?
A timeout while applying firmware could indeed indicate a PHY access
problem. However, firmware loading failures are already non-fatal,
and the callers of r8169_apply_firmware() do not propagate errors
either. Making firmware application failures fatal would require
broader changes to several r8169 PHY initialization paths.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-16 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-16 15:24 [PATCH net-next 0/3] r8169: handle firmware application errors Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-09-16 15:24 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] r8169: propagate errors from PHY write operations Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-09-16 18:38 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-09-16 21:10 ` Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-09-16 21:14 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-09-16 21:19 ` Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-09-16 15:24 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] r8169: propagate firmware access errors Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-09-16 15:24 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] r8169: release firmware on application failure Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-09-16 18:42 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-09-16 21:15 ` Matheus Alves de Almeida [this message]
2026-09-16 22:02 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-09-16 22:21 ` Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-09-17 2:19 ` Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-09-17 12:14 ` Andrew Lunn
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