PHY drivers might need access to NVMEM or the filesystem to load
calibration/initialization data. The driver will then return -EPROBE_DEFER
to signal to the device core that the probe should be retried multiple
times again in the 10s driver_deferred_probe_timeout.
But when the switch driver calls dsa_register_switch(), it needs to connect
the PHYs directly. As result, all PHYs without an driver will automatically
get the default driver (either `genphy_c45_driver` or `genphy_driver`)
assigned and initialized. But for PHYs with the additional initialization
data from NVMEM/fs, this will usually result in not working PHYs.
Since there are Realtek based boards with RTL826x PHYs and the new driver
loads the initialization/patch values from rootfs, it is necessary to check
in the beginning of the probe function whether the PHYs are ready and the
probing can continue.
If some driver is still without driver after the deferred probe period
ended, the loading will just continue and the generic PHY drivers will
still be used.
Closes: #22811
Co-authored-by: Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Markus Stockhausen <markus.stockhausen@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/23075
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
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