netdev - Re: [PATCH v1] net: phy: fix auto-negotiation stall due to unavailable interrupt

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Message-Id: <B99ADC0E-A793-4334-A086-9F2CE045AB7E@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:25:30 +0300
From:   Alexander Kochetkov <al.kochet@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>,
        Roger Quadros <rogerq@...com>,
        Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@....com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] net: phy: fix auto-negotiation stall due to unavailable interrupt

Hello David!

> 25 апр. 2017 г., в 17:36, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> написал(а):
> 
> So... what are we doing here?
> 
> My understanding is that this should fix the same problem that commit
> 99f81afc139c6edd14d77a91ee91685a414a1c66 ("phy: micrel: Disable auto
> negotiation on startup") fixed and that this micrel commit should thus
> be reverted to improve MAC startup times which regressed.
> 
> Florian, any guidance?

Yes, this should be done.

I aksed Alexandre to check if 99f81afc139c6edd14d77a91ee91685a414a1c66 ("phy: micrel: Disable auto
negotiation on startup») can be reverted, and he answered what it may do that
sometime this/next week.

Alexander.