I found two issues dealing with the SMSC911x on the Renesas APE6-EVM when the interface is not up yet. Each patch here deals with one of them. Please read the patch description for details. Wolfram Sang (2): Revert "net: smsc911x: Make Runtime PM handling more fine-grained" smsc911x: avoid PHY being resumed when interface is not up drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c | 27 +++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) -- 2.30.2