Hi, I observed this behavior on a Texas Instruments AM1808 SoC (AM1808 experimenter's kit) running the current mainline kernel:
# ifconfig eth0 down # ifconfig eth0 up davinci_mdio davinci_mdio.0: resetting idled controller net eth0: attached PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=davinci_mdio-0:00) # PHY: davinci_mdio-0:00 - Link is Up - 100/Full After each ifconfig eth0 up I get this 'resetting idled controller' warning. I added a few debug messages to the davinci_mdio driver and noticed that the MDIO control register was set to its reset value (clock divider 0xff and MDIO turned off) after an ifconfig eth0 up. Therefore, this warning is issued and a reconfiguration of the MDIO controller is done by the driver. Now the question was: Who is turning off the MDIO controller? After a bit of debugging I found out that the reset of the MDIO controller seems to be caused by these lines in the davinci_emac driver in emac_hw_enable() in drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c: emac_write(EMAC_SOFTRESET, 1); while (emac_read(EMAC_SOFTRESET)) cpu_relax(); According to the AM1808 Technical Reference Manual (sections 18.2.14.1 and 18.3.3.34 in [1]), writing a 1 to the EMAC_SOFTRESET register resets the EMAC module, but not the MDIO module. However, when I comment out the code above, the MDIO control register is not affected and the warning 'resetting idled controller' disappears. Is this an error in the documentation? Or in hardware? Or did I miss something here? I already asked this questions in TI's E2E forum [2] but did not get an answer yet. I would like to ask all the TI people out there to help me getting an answer to this question. Thanks you! Anyway, I think this should be fixed since it's bad when a driver (davinci_emac) resets another driver's (davinci_mdio's) hardware. Best regards, Christian [1] http://www.ti.com/litv/pdf/spruh82a [2] http://e2e.ti.com/support/dsp/omap_applications_processors/f/42/t/164314.aspx _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list Davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source