This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: phy: Do not perform software reset for Generic PHY
to the 4.4-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-do-not-perform-software-reset-for-generic-phy.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 0878fff1f42c18e448ab5b8b4f6a3eb32365b5b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 12:34:49 -0800
Subject: net: phy: Do not perform software reset for Generic PHY
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 0878fff1f42c18e448ab5b8b4f6a3eb32365b5b6 upstream.
The Generic PHY driver is a catch-all PHY driver and it should preserve
whatever prior initialization has been done by boot loader or firmware
agents. For specific PHY device configuration it is expected that a
specialized PHY driver would take over that role.
Resetting the generic PHY was a bad idea that has lead to several
complaints and downstream workarounds e.g: in OpenWrt/LEDE so restore
the behavior prior to 87aa9f9c61ad ("net: phy: consolidate PHY
reset in phy_init_hw()").
Reported-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 87aa9f9c61ad ("net: phy: consolidate PHY reset in phy_init_hw()")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 2 +-
include/linux/phy.h | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -1442,7 +1442,7 @@ static struct phy_driver genphy_driver[]
.phy_id = 0xffffffff,
.phy_id_mask = 0xffffffff,
.name = "Generic PHY",
- .soft_reset = genphy_soft_reset,
+ .soft_reset = genphy_no_soft_reset,
.config_init = genphy_config_init,
.features = PHY_GBIT_FEATURES | SUPPORTED_MII |
SUPPORTED_AUI | SUPPORTED_FIBRE |
--- a/include/linux/phy.h
+++ b/include/linux/phy.h
@@ -785,6 +785,10 @@ int genphy_read_status(struct phy_device
int genphy_suspend(struct phy_device *phydev);
int genphy_resume(struct phy_device *phydev);
int genphy_soft_reset(struct phy_device *phydev);
+static inline int genphy_no_soft_reset(struct phy_device *phydev)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
void phy_driver_unregister(struct phy_driver *drv);
void phy_drivers_unregister(struct phy_driver *drv, int n);
int phy_driver_register(struct phy_driver *new_driver);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/net-phy-do-not-perform-software-reset-for-generic-phy.patch