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Message-Id: <20161114.164057.379572642582264115.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:40:57 -0500 (EST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, peppe.cavallaro@...com,
alexandre.torgue@...com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: stmmac: Fix lack of link transition for fixed
PHYs
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 17:50:35 -0800
> Commit 52f95bbfcf72 ("stmmac: fix adjust link call in case of a switch
> is attached") added some logic to avoid polling the fixed PHY and
> therefore invoking the adjust_link callback more than once, since this
> is a fixed PHY and link events won't be generated.
>
> This works fine the first time, because we start with phydev->irq =
> PHY_POLL, so we call adjust_link, then we set phydev->irq =
> PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT and we stop polling the PHY.
>
> Now, if we called ndo_close(), which calls both phy_stop() and does an
> explicit netif_carrier_off(), we end up with a link down. Upon calling
> ndo_open() again, despite starting the PHY state machine, we have
> PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT set, and we generate no link event at all, so the
> link is permanently down.
>
> 52f95bbfcf72 ("stmmac: fix adjust link call in case of a switch is attached")
I added the missing "Fixes: " here.
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Florian.
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