netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] net: emac: fix reset timeout with AR8035 phy

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Date:   Mon, 5 Jun 2017 23:48:57 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@...glemail.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Ivan Mikhaylov <ivan@...ibm.com>,
        Chris Blake <chrisrblake93@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] net: emac: fix reset timeout with AR8035 phy

On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 11:44:46PM +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> On Monday, June 5, 2017 11:26:17 PM CEST Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > In order to stay compatible with existing configurations, the
> > > driver will try the normal reset first and only falls back to
> > > to the internal clock, after the first reset fails. If the
> > > second reset fails as well, it will give up as before.
> > 
> > Hi Christian
> > 
> > This gets things probed correctly. But should you swap back to the PHY
> > clock when the PHY declares the link up? Is there code already to do
> > this?
> > 
> > 	Andrew
> > 
> Oh, sorry. I omitted this from the commit message. But the proposed 
> emac_reset() code  switched to the internal clock only after the first attempt
> has failed AND only for the duration of the reset.
> 
> If the reset succeeds or the reset times out, the clock is always switched 
> back to the external clock.

Thanks for the clarification. Maybe add it to the commit message.

       Andrew