This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: phy: dp83867: perform soft reset and retain established link to the 5.12-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-phy-dp83867-perform-soft-reset-and-retain-establ.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 94dcc202ec1de6e7b526d513d34193b6ee4a4755 Author: Praneeth Bajjuri <praneeth@xxxxxx> Date: Wed Jun 9 19:43:42 2021 -0500 net: phy: dp83867: perform soft reset and retain established link [ Upstream commit da9ef50f545f86ffe6ff786174d26500c4db737a ] Current logic is performing hard reset and causing the programmed registers to be wiped out. as per datasheet: https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/dp83867cr.pdf 8.6.26 Control Register (CTRL) do SW_RESTART to perform a reset not including the registers, If performed when link is already present, it will drop the link and trigger re-auto negotiation. Signed-off-by: Praneeth Bajjuri <praneeth@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Geet Modi <geet.modi@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/dp83867.c b/drivers/net/phy/dp83867.c index 9bd9a5c0b1db..6bbc81ad295f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/dp83867.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/dp83867.c @@ -826,16 +826,12 @@ static int dp83867_phy_reset(struct phy_device *phydev) { int err; - err = phy_write(phydev, DP83867_CTRL, DP83867_SW_RESET); + err = phy_write(phydev, DP83867_CTRL, DP83867_SW_RESTART); if (err < 0) return err; usleep_range(10, 20); - /* After reset FORCE_LINK_GOOD bit is set. Although the - * default value should be unset. Disable FORCE_LINK_GOOD - * for the phy to work properly. - */ return phy_modify(phydev, MII_DP83867_PHYCTRL, DP83867_PHYCR_FORCE_LINK_GOOD, 0); }