On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 03:56:45PM +0100, Jamie Iles wrote:
> MDIO reads can happen during PHY probing, and printing an error with
> dev_err can result in a large number of error messages during device
> probe. On a platform with a serial console this can result in
> excessively long boot times in a way that looks like an infinite loop
> when multiple busses are present. Since 0f183fd151c (net/fsl: enable
> extended scanning in xgmac_mdio) we perform more scanning so there are
> potentially more failures.
>
> Reduce the logging level to dev_dbg which is consistent with the
> Freescale enetc driver.
Hi Jamie
Does the system you are using suffer from Errata A011043?
The change does however seem reasonable.
Andrew
