netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: ensure Gigabit features are masked off if requested

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Date:	Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:16:15 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jcmvbkbc@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: ensure Gigabit features are masked off
 if requested

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 12:35:46 -0800

> When a Gigabit PHY device is connected to a 10/100Mbits capable Ethernet
> MAC, the driver will restrict the phydev->supported modes to mask off
> Gigabit. If the Gigabit PHY comes out of reset with the Gigabit features
> set by default in MII_CTRL1000, it will keep advertising these feature,
> so by the time we call genphy_config_advert(), the condition on
> phydev->supported having the Gigabit features on is false, and we do not
> update MII_CTRL1000 with updated values, and we keep advertising Gigabit
> features, eventually configuring the PHY for Gigabit whilst the Ethernet
> MAC does not support that.
> 
> This patches fixes the problem by ensuring that the Gigabit feature bits
> are always cleared in MII_CTRL1000, if the PHY happens to be a Gigabit
> PHY, and then, if Gigabit features are supported, setting those and
> updating MII_CTRL1000 accordingly.
> 
> Reported-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.
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