netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: support bgmac with B50212E B1 PHY

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Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:59:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     zajec5@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        hauke@...ke-m.de, jon.mason@...adcom.com, steven.lin1@...adcom.com,
        tklauser@...tanz.ch, bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com,
        rafal@...ecki.pl
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: support bgmac with B50212E B1 PHY

From: Rafa┅ Mi┅ecki <zajec5@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:21:24 +0200

> From: Rafa┅ Mi┅ecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>
> 
> I got a report that a board with BCM47189 SoC and B50212E B1 PHY doesn't
> work well some devices as there is massive ping loss. After analyzing
> PHY state it has appeared that is runs in slave mode and doesn't auto
> switch to master properly when needed.
> 
> This patchset fixes this by:
> 1) Adding new flag support to the PHY driver for setting master mode
> 2) Modifying bgmac to request master mode for reported hardware

Series applied to net-next, thanks.