netdev - [PATCH net] net: phy: Do not perform software reset for Generic PHY

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Date:   Sun,  5 Mar 2017 12:26:10 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, andrew@...n.ch, nbd@....name,
        john@...ozen.org, cphealy@...il.com,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: phy: Do not perform software reset for Generic PHY

The Generic PHY driver is a catch-all PHY driver and it should preserve
whatever prior initialization has been done by boot loader or firmware
agents. For specific PHY device configuration it is expected that a
specialized PHY driver would take over that role.

Resetting the generic PHY was a bad idea that has lead to several
complaints and downstream workarounds e.g: in OpenWrt/LEDE so restore
the behavior prior to 87aa9f9c61ad ("net: phy: consolidate PHY
reset in phy_init_hw()").

Reported-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
Fixes: 87aa9f9c61ad ("net: phy: consolidate PHY reset in phy_init_hw()")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index daec6555f3b1..5198ccfa347f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -1864,7 +1864,7 @@ static struct phy_driver genphy_driver[] = {
 	.phy_id		= 0xffffffff,
 	.phy_id_mask	= 0xffffffff,
 	.name		= "Generic PHY",
-	.soft_reset	= genphy_soft_reset,
+	.soft_reset	= genphy_no_soft_reset,
 	.config_init	= genphy_config_init,
 	.features	= PHY_GBIT_FEATURES | SUPPORTED_MII |
 			  SUPPORTED_AUI | SUPPORTED_FIBRE |
-- 
2.9.3