From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: shawnguo@kernel.org (Shawn Guo) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 21:22:24 +0800 Subject: [PATCH v2] ARM: imx_v6_v7_defconfig: Select SMSC_PHY In-Reply-To: <0d4ff89ce2276dfbde2db8ced3fff10582a5b899.1490783707.git.leonard.crestez@nxp.com> References: <0d4ff89ce2276dfbde2db8ced3fff10582a5b899.1490783707.git.leonard.crestez@nxp.com> Message-ID: <20170330132222.GF683@dragon> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 01:48:02PM +0300, Leonard Crestez wrote: > The imx6sl-evk board has a LAN8720A ethernet phy supported by SMSC_PHY. > Add this driver to the default imx config since the device is present on > one of the evaluation boards. > > This used to work mostly fine with the generic phy driver until > commit 0878fff1f42c ("net: phy: Do not perform software reset for > Generic PHY"). The fact that soft reset is no longer performed > apparently causes RX to sometimes failes which can cause netboot to > timeout on DHCP. This is eventually retried and it works after link > up/down but can takes 90 seconds to reach the login prompt. > > This was generated with "make savedefconfig" and it includes a few > additional minor cleanups. > > Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez > Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam > Acked-by: Florian Fainelli > Acked-by: Fugang Duan Applied, thanks.