[PATCH net v2] net: mdio: mdio-bcm-unimac: Correct rate fallback logic

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Wed Jul 30 2025 - 16:25:48 EST


When the parent clock is a gated clock which has multiple parents, the
clock provider (clk-scmi typically) might return a rate of 0 since there
is not one of those particular parent clocks that should be chosen for
returning a rate. Prior to ee975351cf0c ("net: mdio: mdio-bcm-unimac:
Manage clock around I/O accesses"), we would not always be passing a
clock reference depending upon how mdio-bcm-unimac was instantiated. In
that case, we would take the fallback path where the rate is hard coded
to 250MHz.

Make sure that we still fallback to using a fixed rate for the divider
calculation, otherwise we simply ignore the desired MDIO bus clock
frequency which can prevent us from interfacing with Ethernet PHYs
properly.

Fixes: ee975351cf0c ("net: mdio: mdio-bcm-unimac: Manage clock around I/O accesses")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:

- provide additional details as to how a parent clock can have a rate of
0 (Andrew)

- incorporate Simon's feedback that an optional clock is NULL and
therefore returns a rate of 0 as well

drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-unimac.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-unimac.c b/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-unimac.c
index b6e30bdf5325..7baab230008a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-unimac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-unimac.c
@@ -209,10 +209,9 @@ static int unimac_mdio_clk_set(struct unimac_mdio_priv *priv)
if (ret)
return ret;

- if (!priv->clk)
+ rate = clk_get_rate(priv->clk);
+ if (!rate)
rate = 250000000;
- else
- rate = clk_get_rate(priv->clk);

div = (rate / (2 * priv->clk_freq)) - 1;
if (div & ~MDIO_CLK_DIV_MASK) {
--
2.34.1