linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: imx_v6_v7_defconfig: Select SMSC

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Date:   Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:09:26 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@....com>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@....com>,
        Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@....com>,
        Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: imx_v6_v7_defconfig: Select SMSC_PHY

On 03/22/2017 07:27 AM, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> The imx6sl-evk board has a LAN8720A ethernet phy supported by SMSC_PHY.
> Add this driver to the default imx config since the device is present on
> one of the evaluation boards.
> 
> This used to work mostly fine with the generic phy driver but since
> commit 0878fff1f42c18e448ab5b8b4f6a3eb32365b5b6 that driver no longer
> performs a soft reset on startup. This causes netboot to sometimes
> timeout on DHCP because RX doesn't work right. DHCP is eventually retried and
> it works the second time but it takes 90+ seconds to get a login prompt.
> 
> This was generated with "make savedefconfig" and it includes a few
> additional minor cleanups.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@....com>

Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
-- 
Florian