[PATCH net] net: dsa: mt7530: do not advertise EEE on MT7621 switch

[PATCH net] net: dsa: mt7530: do not advertise EEE on MT7621 switch

[Vladislav Karmanov]

From: Shiji Yang <yangshiji66@outlook.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:29:56 +0800

There are hardware defects in the MT7621 (MT7530) EEE support: with EEE
advertised, some link partners cannot establish a stable connection.
Notably, on a 2-pair (4-wire) cable where both ends advertise gigabit,
1000BASE-T training cannot succeed, and instead of falling back to
100 Mbps the port flaps in a loop and no link/DHCP lease is obtained.
This is confined to the WAN / phylib bring-up path; the DSA/LAN side on
the same device is unaffected.

The MT7530 internal GE PHY advertises EEE by hardware default. The
eee-broken-100tx / eee-broken-1000t device-tree properties only take
effect during the late PHY config_init path, which is too late for these
link partners: they negotiate EEE before the OS disables it and then
fail to fall back cleanly.

Commit af3b4b0e59de ("net: phy: mediatek-ge: do not disable EEE
advertisement") removed the early EEE-advertisement disable from
mtk_gephy_config_init(), on the rationale that "disabling EEE
advertisement before the PHY driver initialises keeps it off", i.e. that
the DSA subdriver already performs that early disable. That rationale
holds for MT7531, whose mt7531_setup() clears MDIO_AN_EEE_ADV on each
switch PHY -- but it does not hold for MT7621, whose mt7530_setup()
never had such a loop. So af3b4b0e59de removed the only early EEE
disable that covered MT7621, reintroducing the flapping on MT7621-based
boards (regression reported on ramips/mt7621).

MediaTek's own recommendation (Landen Chao, 2021) confirms the hardware
is the root cause: "EEE of the 10-year-old MT7530 internal gephy has many
IOT problems, so it is recommended to disable its EEE."

Restore the early disable for MT7621, but on the DSA side -- exactly the
location af3b4b0e59de assumed it already lived -- by clearing
MDIO_AN_EEE_ADV on each switch PHY in mt7530_setup(), guarded on
priv->id == ID_MT7621, mirroring the existing mt7531_setup() loop.
Auto-negotiation then falls back to a stable 100 Mbps link instead of
hanging at gigabit.

Tested on ASUS RT-AX53U (MT7621): a single clean
"Link is Up - 100Mbps/Full - flow control off" + DHCP lease on a 2-pair
cable, where the unpatched driver loops. Confirmed on kernel 6.12 and
6.18; also confirmed on Netgear R6220 and EdgeRouter-X (both MT7621).

Fixes: af3b4b0e59de ("net: phy: mediatek-ge: do not disable EEE advertisement")
Signed-off-by: Shiji Yang <yangshiji66@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Karmanov <vladislav.karmanov.dev@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/dsa/mt7530.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/dsa/mt7530.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dsa/mt7530.c
@@ -2518,6 +2518,15 @@
 	if ((val & MT7530_XTAL_MASK) == MT7530_XTAL_40MHZ)
 		mt7530_pll_setup(priv);
 
+	if (priv->id == ID_MT7621) {
+		/* Disable EEE advertisement on the switch PHYs. */
+		for (i = MT753X_CTRL_PHY_ADDR(priv->mdiodev->addr);
+		     i < MT753X_CTRL_PHY_ADDR(priv->mdiodev->addr) + MT7530_NUM_PHYS;
+		     i++) {
+			mt7530_phy_write_c45(priv, i, MDIO_MMD_AN, MDIO_AN_EEE_ADV, 0);
+		}
+	}
+
 	mt753x_trap_frames(priv);
 
 	/* Enable and reset MIB counters */

Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: mt7530: do not advertise EEE on MT7621 switch

[Daniel Golle]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 09:28:29PM +0300, Vladislav Karmanov wrote:
> There are hardware defects in the MT7621 (MT7530) EEE support: with EEE
> advertised, some link partners cannot establish a stable connection.
> Notably, on a 2-pair (4-wire) cable where both ends advertise gigabit,
> 1000BASE-T training cannot succeed, and instead of falling back to
> 100 Mbps the port flaps in a loop and no link/DHCP lease is obtained.
> This is confined to the WAN / phylib bring-up path; the DSA/LAN side on
> the same device is unaffected.
> 
> The MT7530 internal GE PHY advertises EEE by hardware default. The
> eee-broken-100tx / eee-broken-1000t device-tree properties only take
> effect during the late PHY config_init path, which is too late for these
> link partners: they negotiate EEE before the OS disables it and then
> fail to fall back cleanly.
> 
> Commit af3b4b0e59de ("net: phy: mediatek-ge: do not disable EEE
> advertisement") removed the early EEE-advertisement disable from
> mtk_gephy_config_init(), on the rationale that "disabling EEE
> advertisement before the PHY driver initialises keeps it off", i.e. that
> the DSA subdriver already performs that early disable. That rationale
> holds for MT7531, whose mt7531_setup() clears MDIO_AN_EEE_ADV on each
> switch PHY -- but it does not hold for MT7621, whose mt7530_setup()
> never had such a loop. So af3b4b0e59de removed the only early EEE
> disable that covered MT7621, reintroducing the flapping on MT7621-based
> boards (regression reported on ramips/mt7621).
> 
> MediaTek's own recommendation (Landen Chao, 2021) confirms the hardware
> is the root cause: "EEE of the 10-year-old MT7530 internal gephy has many
> IOT problems, so it is recommended to disable its EEE."
> [...]
> --- a/drivers/net/dsa/mt7530.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/mt7530.c
> @@ -2518,6 +2518,15 @@
>  	if ((val & MT7530_XTAL_MASK) == MT7530_XTAL_40MHZ)
>  		mt7530_pll_setup(priv);
>  
> +	if (priv->id == ID_MT7621) {

It'd be very surprising if this limitation doesn't also apply for the
nearly identical decicated MT7530 IC (found eg. on BananaPi R2).

I'd recommend disabling EEE advertisement on MT7621 and MT7530; and I
suspect that some of the older Trendnet/Econet SoCs which share common
linage with the MediaTek's Ethernet switch and PHY designs could also
be affected.

Hence I'd suggest to extend 'struct mt753x_info' with a 'broken_eee'
bool instead of maintining an in-code list of EEE-broken silicon IDs.

> +		/* Disable EEE advertisement on the switch PHYs. */
> +		for (i = MT753X_CTRL_PHY_ADDR(priv->mdiodev->addr);
> +		     i < MT753X_CTRL_PHY_ADDR(priv->mdiodev->addr) + MT7530_NUM_PHYS;
> +		     i++) {
> +			mt7530_phy_write_c45(priv, i, MDIO_MMD_AN, MDIO_AN_EEE_ADV, 0);
> +		}
> +	}
> +

Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: mt7530: do not advertise EEE on MT7621 switch

[Andrew Lunn]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 09:28:29PM +0300, Vladislav Karmanov wrote:
> From: Shiji Yang <yangshiji66@outlook.com>
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:29:56 +0800
> 
> There are hardware defects in the MT7621 (MT7530) EEE support: with EEE
> advertised, some link partners cannot establish a stable connection.
> Notably, on a 2-pair (4-wire) cable where both ends advertise gigabit,
> 1000BASE-T training cannot succeed, and instead of falling back to
> 100 Mbps the port flaps in a loop and no link/DHCP lease is obtained.
> This is confined to the WAN / phylib bring-up path; the DSA/LAN side on
> the same device is unaffected.

Do we know what is broken here? MAC or PHY?

If it is the PHY which is broken, it would be better to put the
workaround into the PHY driver.

	Andrew