net: sfp: report error on failure to read sfp soft status

Report a rate-limited error if we fail to read the SFP soft status,
and preserve the current status in that case. This avoids I2C bus
errors from triggering a link flap.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c b/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
index e54aef9..73c2969 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
@@ -442,13 +442,20 @@ static unsigned int sfp_soft_get_state(struct sfp *sfp)
 {
        unsigned int state = 0;
        u8 status;
+       int ret;
 
-       if (sfp_read(sfp, true, SFP_STATUS, &status, sizeof(status)) ==
-                    sizeof(status)) {
+       ret = sfp_read(sfp, true, SFP_STATUS, &status, sizeof(status));
+       if (ret == sizeof(status)) {
                if (status & SFP_STATUS_RX_LOS)
                        state |= SFP_F_LOS;
                if (status & SFP_STATUS_TX_FAULT)
                        state |= SFP_F_TX_FAULT;
+       } else {
+               dev_err_ratelimited(sfp->dev,
+                                   "failed to read SFP soft status: %d\n",
+                                   ret);
+               /* Preserve the current state */
+               state = sfp->state;
        }
 
        return state & sfp->state_soft_mask;