linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 33/98] ARM: dts: imx6ul-14x14-evk: Add ksz8081 phy properties

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Date:   Mon, 29 Oct 2018 14:46:22 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@....com>
Cc:     "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
        Dan Rue <dan.rue@...aro.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Lars Persson <lars.persson@...s.com>,
        "chris.ruehl@...ys.com.hk" <chris.ruehl@...ys.com.hk>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 33/98] ARM: dts: imx6ul-14x14-evk: Add
 ksz8081 phy properties

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 02:07:52PM +0000, Leonard Crestez wrote:
>On 10/25/2018 5:15 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@....com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit e6f4292ae0a1e73fae26ced57de13a48f71ad1fa ]
>>
>> Right now mach-imx6ul registers a fixup for the ksz8081 phy. The same
>> register values can be set through the micrel phy driver by using dts
>> properties.
>>
>> This seems preferable and allows cleanly fixing suspend/resume.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@....com>
>> Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@....com>
>> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
>> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
>
>This patch only fixes suspend on 6ul evk in combination with
>79e498a9c7da ("net: phy: micrel: Restore led_mode and clk_sel on
>resume"). It is otherwise not very useful to backport just the DT patch.
>
>That patch was earlier backported but then reverted from 4.9 because it
>unexpectedly caused issues when combined with other phy patches applied
>out-of-order. It seems a correct fix was eventually made (by backporting
>bfe72442578b) and 79e498a9c7da could now be restored:
>
>     https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/11/972
>
>I'm not sure fixing nfsroot suspend/resume on dev boards meets the
>criteria for linux-stable, especially since it already caused trouble
>once. In general I'd class "fixing things that never worked before" as
>not particularly suitable for backporting.

Thank you for looking into this, I'll drop the patch.

--
Thanks,
Sasha