Re: [PATCH/RFC] net: phy: device: Don't deassert the reset when register and probe

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Heiner,

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 8:47 PM Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27.11.2018 17:44, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:18:20PM +0000, Yoshihiro Shimoda wrote:
> >> Some PHY device needs edge signal of the reset, but the previous code
> >> is impossible to achieve it like following:
> >>
> >>  1) Kernel boots by using initramfs.
> >>  --> No open the nic, so the provious code deasserts the reset by
> >>      phy_device_register() and phy_probe().
> >>  2) Kernel enters the suspend.
> >>  --> So, keep the reset signal as deassert.
> >>  --> On R-Car Salvator-XS board, unfortunately, the board power is
> >>      turned off.
> >>  3) Kernel returns from suspend.
> >>  4) ifconfig eth0 up
> >>  --> Then, since edge signal of the reset doesn't happen,
> >>      it cannot link up.
> >
> > Hi Yoshihiro
> >
> > It sounds like you should be adding code to the suspend/resume
> > handling of phylib, so that it toggle the reset on resume. You cannot
> > just delete code like you proposed, it is going to break devices. But
> > adding code should be O.K.
> >
> The commit message mentions that the patch is supposed to fix some
> issue on the Salvator-XS board. I found the following from a year ago
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg457308.html
> which is also about PHY reset and this board. Is there still something
> open?  But as Andrew mentioned already: Just deleting code w/o
> checking what it's good for and whether this could have side effects,
> isn't a solution. Especially because the patch would silently remove
> the call to phy_scan_fixups().

That's correct: my original motivation for picking up Sergei's patches was to
make Ethernet work after suspend/resume on the same Salvator-XS board.

The main difference seems to be that I was using NFS root, while Shimoda-san
is using an initramfs.  Hence there probably is an inconsistency in reset
handling for an active vs. inactive Ethernet interface.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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