[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/7] net: phy: ensure Gigabit features are masked off if requested

Joe Hershberger
2016-01-27T16:03:21Z

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Alexey Brodkin
<Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com> wrote:
> From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
>
> When a Gigabit PHY device is connected to a 10/100Mbits capable Ethernet
> MAC, the driver will restrict the phydev->supported modes to mask off
> Gigabit. If the Gigabit PHY comes out of reset with the Gigabit features
> set by default in MII_CTRL1000, it will keep advertising these feature,
> so by the time we call genphy_config_advert(), the condition on
> phydev->supported having the Gigabit features on is false, and we do not
> update MII_CTRL1000 with updated values, and we keep advertising Gigabit
> features, eventually configuring the PHY for Gigabit whilst the Ethernet
> MAC does not support that.
>
> This patches fixes the problem by ensuring that the Gigabit feature bits
> are always cleared in MII_CTRL1000, if the PHY happens to be a Gigabit
> PHY, and then, if Gigabit features are supported, setting those and
> updating MII_CTRL1000 accordingly.
>
> This is a copy of patch from Linux kernel, see
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5273e3a5ca94fbeb8e07d31203069220d5e682aa
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
> Cc: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>