netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: qcom/emac: Change the order of mac up and sgmii open

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Date:   Mon, 18 Dec 2017 10:05:56 -0600
From:   Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>
To:     Hemanth Puranik <hpuranik@...eaurora.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: qcom/emac: Change the order of mac up and sgmii open

On 12/17/2017 11:57 PM, Hemanth Puranik wrote:
> This patch fixes the order of mac_up and sgmii_open for the
> reasons noted below:
> 
> - If open takes more time(if the SGMII block is not responding or
>    if we want to do some delay based task) in this situation we
>    will hit NETDEV watchdog
> - The main reason : We should signal to upper layers that we are
>    ready to receive packets "only" when the entire path is initialized
>    not the other way around, this is followed in the reset path where
>    we do mac_down, sgmii_reset and mac_up. This also makes the driver
>    uniform across the reset and open paths.
> - In the future there may be need for delay based tasks to be done in
>    sgmii open which will result in NETDEV watchdog
> - As per the documentation the order of init should be sgmii, mac, rings
>    and DMA
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hemanth Puranik<hpuranik@...eaurora.org>

Acked-by: Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>

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