RE: [PATCH net-next v3 4/4] net: fec: add phy_reset_after_clk_enable() support

Andy Duan
2017-12-06T01:50:23Z

From: Richard Leitner <dev@g0hl1n.net> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2017 9:26 PM
>Some PHYs (for example the SMSC LAN8710/LAN8720) doesn't allow turning
>the refclk on and off again during operation (according to their datasheet).
>Nonetheless exactly this behaviour was introduced for power saving reasons
>by commit e8fcfcd5684a ("net: fec: optimize the clock management to save
>power").
>Therefore add support for the phy_reset_after_clk_enable function from
>phylib to mitigate this issue.
>
>Generally speaking this issue is only relevant if the ref clk for the PHY is
>generated by the SoC and therefore the PHY is configured to "REF_CLK In
>Mode". In our specific case (PCB) this problem does occur at about every 10th
>to 50th POR of an LAN8710 connected to an i.MX6SOLO SoC. The typical
>symptom of this problem is a "swinging" ethernet link.
>Similar issues were reported by users of the NXP forum:
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>With this patch applied the issue didn't occur for at least a few hundret PORs
>of our board.
>
>Fixes: e8fcfcd5684a ("net: fec: optimize the clock management to save
>power")
>Signed-off-by: Richard Leitner <richard.leitner@skidata.com>
>---
> drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
>b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
>index 610573855213..8c3d0fb7db20 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
>@@ -1862,6 +1862,8 @@ static int fec_enet_clk_enable(struct net_device
>*ndev, bool enable)
> ret = clk_prepare_enable(fep->clk_ref);
> if (ret)
> goto failed_clk_ref;
>+
>+ phy_reset_after_clk_enable(ndev->phydev);
> } else {
> clk_disable_unprepare(fep->clk_ahb);
> clk_disable_unprepare(fep->clk_enet_out);
>@@ -2860,6 +2862,11 @@ fec_enet_open(struct net_device *ndev)
> if (ret)
> goto err_enet_mii_probe;
>
>+ /* reset phy if needed here, due to the fact this is the first time we
>+ * have the net_device to phy_driver link
>+ */
>+ phy_reset_after_clk_enable(ndev->phydev);
>+

The patch series look better.
But why does it need to reset phy here since phy already is hard reset after clock enable.

> if (fep->quirks & FEC_QUIRK_ERR006687)
> imx6q_cpuidle_fec_irqs_used();
>
>--
>2.11.0