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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: baruch@tkos.co.il, vivien.didelot@gmail.com, marek.behun@nic.cz,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, d.odintsov@traviangames.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: force cmode write on 6141/6341
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 23:36:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200102223641.GI1397@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200102.124556.1780903980066866154.davem@davemloft.net>

On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 12:45:56PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:48:22 +0200
> 
> > mv88e6xxx_port_set_cmode() relies on cmode stored in struct
> > mv88e6xxx_port to skip cmode update when the requested value matches the
> > cached value. It turns out that mv88e6xxx_port_hidden_write() might
> > change the port cmode setting as a side effect, so we can't rely on the
> > cached value to determine that cmode update in not necessary.
> > 
> > Force cmode update in mv88e6341_port_set_cmode(), to make
> > serdes configuration work again. Other mv88e6xxx_port_set_cmode()
> > callers keep the current behaviour.
> > 
> > This fixes serdes configuration of the 6141 switch on SolidRun Clearfog
> > GT-8K.
> > 
> > Fixes: 7a3007d22e8 ("net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: fully support SERDES on Topaz family")
> > Reported-by: Denis Odintsov <d.odintsov@traviangames.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
> 
> This thread has stalled on December 20th with Baruch asking if we can put this
> in for now as a temporary fix that solves the given problem whilst a better
> long term analysis and change is being worked on.

Hi David

It seems like a reasonable fix for the moment.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>

    Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-02 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-19  9:48 [PATCH] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: force cmode write on 6141/6341 Baruch Siach
2019-12-20 19:27 ` Vivien Didelot
2019-12-21 10:22   ` Andrew Lunn
2019-12-21 21:51   ` Vivien Didelot
2019-12-22  9:43   ` Baruch Siach
2020-01-02 20:45 ` David Miller
2020-01-02 22:36   ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2020-01-02 23:31     ` David Miller

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