netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: rtl8366rb: Support port 4 (WAN)

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Date:   Thu, 09 Aug 2018 14:15:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     linus.walleij@...aro.org
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        openwrt-devel@...ts.openwrt.org, lede-dev@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: rtl8366rb: Support port 4 (WAN)

From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Date: Wed,  8 Aug 2018 14:38:55 +0200

> The totally undocumented IO mode needs to be set to enumerator
> 0 to enable port 4 also known as WAN in most configurations,
> for ordinary traffic. The 3 bits in the register come up as
> 010 after reset, but need to be set to 000.
> 
> The Realtek source code contains a name for these bits, but
> no explanation of what the 8 different IO modes may be.
> 
> Set it to zero for the time being and drop a comment so
> people know what is going on if they run into trouble. This
> "mode zero" works fine with the D-Link DIR-685 with
> RTL8366RB.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Applied to net-next, thank you.