netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: ensure Gigabit features are masked off if requested

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Date:	Tue, 4 Feb 2014 02:58:11 +0400
From:	Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>
To:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: ensure Gigabit features are masked off if requested

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Reported-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

Tested-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>

-- 
Thanks.
-- Max
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