[PATCH] net: dwmac-rk: MAC clock should be truned off

Russell King (Oracle) linux at armlinux.org.uk
Sat May 24 12:34:13 PDT 2025


On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 04:48:15PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 10:05:47PM +0800, lizhe wrote:
> > Hi, Anerdw
> > The following is the logic for calling this function: 
> > 
> > 
> > rk_gmac_powerup() {
> > 
> > ret = phy_power_on(bsp_priv, true);      // here.
> > 
> > if (ret) {
> > 
> > gmac_clk_enable(bsp_priv, false);
> > 
> > return ret;
> > 
> > }
> > 
> > }
> 
> Ah, there is something funny with your patch. Look at the diff:
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-rk.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-rk.c
> index 700858ff6f7c..036e45be5828 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-rk.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-rk.c
> @@ -1648,7 +1648,7 @@  static int gmac_clk_enable(struct rk_priv_data *bsp_priv, bool enable)
> 
> This line tells you where in the file you are patching, and the
> function to be patched. This is what i looked at,
> gmac_clk_enable(). And gmac_clk_enable() has a similar structure, ret
> declared at the beginning, return 0 at the end. But the only way to
> that return 0 is without error.
> 
> But patch is actually for:
> 
>  static int phy_power_on(struct rk_priv_data *bsp_priv, bool enable)

Andrew, this is not a problem. This is how diffs work. If the function
hasn't actually started at the point the context starts, then the
previous function will appear in the comment after the line numbers.

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