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Date:	Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:07:01 -0800
From:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:	Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bgmac: start/stop PHY on netdev open/stop

2013/12/10 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>:
> I've realized that I need to call ethtool command to get Ethernet
> working after booting. Ex call: ethtool -s eth0 autoneg on
> It was fixing Ethernet even if auto-negotiation was already on.
>
> Adding calls to phy_start and phy_stop look like a real solution.

I kind of missed that too during the review, thanks for fixing this! I
wonder if we could somehow
issue a warning in libphy if we manage to go past ndo_start_xmit() and
we have not yet started the PHY state machine.

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

>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c |    4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c
> index db71d75..055204e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c
> @@ -1139,6 +1139,8 @@ static int bgmac_open(struct net_device *net_dev)
>         }
>         napi_enable(&bgmac->napi);
>
> +       phy_start(bgmac->phy_dev);
> +
>         netif_carrier_on(net_dev);
>
>  err_out:
> @@ -1151,6 +1153,8 @@ static int bgmac_stop(struct net_device *net_dev)
>
>         netif_carrier_off(net_dev);
>
> +       phy_stop(bgmac->phy_dev);
> +
>         napi_disable(&bgmac->napi);
>         bgmac_chip_intrs_off(bgmac);
>         free_irq(bgmac->core->irq, net_dev);
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
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