netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: phy: add suspend

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Date:	Mon, 24 Feb 2014 20:15:54 +0100
From:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: add suspend_halted module param

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 05:58:39PM +0100, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> commit 1211ce53077164e0d34641d0ca5fb4d4a7574498
>   ("net: phy: resume/suspend PHYs on attach/detach")
> introduced a feature to suspend PHYs when entering halted state.
> 
> Unfortunately, not all bootloaders properly power-up PHYs on reset
> and fail to access ethernet because the PHY is still powered down.
> 
> Therefore, we add a boolean module parameter suspend_halted with
> default value of true. Disabling that parameter prevents PHYs from
> being suspended when entering halted state.

Hi Sebastian

Am i doing something silly here?

root@...p:/sys/module/libphy/parameters# cat suspend_halted 
Y
root@...p:/sys/module/libphy/parameters# echo N > suspend_halted 
root@...p:/sys/module/libphy/parameters# cat suspend_halted 
N
root@...p:/sys/module/libphy/parameters# reboot
...
...

Net:   egiga0 [PRIME]
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
Send Cmd : 0x68 to UART1
egiga0 no link
Using egiga0 device
TFTP from server 10.0.0.1; our IP address is 10.0.0.2
Filename 'uImage-qnap'.
Load address: 0x800000
Loading: T T 

Does not seem to work.

     Andrew
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