Patch "net: phy: Do not perform software reset for Generic PHY" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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 4.9-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-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 0878fff1f42c18e448ab5b8b4f6a3eb32365b5b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
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@gmail.com>

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@nbd.name>
Fixes: 87aa9f9c61ad ("net: phy: consolidate PHY reset in phy_init_hw()")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 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
@@ -1792,7 +1792,7 @@ 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
@@ -799,6 +799,10 @@ 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, struct module *owner);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from f.fainelli@gmail.com are

queue-4.9/net-phy-do-not-perform-software-reset-for-generic-phy.patch