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Date:   Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:15:16 +0100
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     liweihang <liweihang@...ilicon.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Phil Reid <preid@...ctromag.com.au>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "dongsheng.wang@...-semitech.com" <dongsheng.wang@...-semitech.com>,
        "cphealy@...il.com" <cphealy@...il.com>,
        "clemens.gruber@...ruber.com" <clemens.gruber@...ruber.com>,
        "nbd@....name" <nbd@....name>,
        "harini.katakam@...inx.com" <harini.katakam@...inx.com>
Subject: Re: regression from: net: phy: marvell: Avoid unnecessary soft reset

On 20.03.2019 13:22, liweihang wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Florian Fainelli [mailto:f.fainelli@...il.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 11:37 AM
>> To: liweihang <liweihang@...ilicon.com>; Phil Reid
>> <preid@...ctromag.com.au>; netdev@...r.kernel.org
>> Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>; David S. Miller
>> <davem@...emloft.net>; dongsheng.wang@...-semitech.com;
>> cphealy@...il.com; clemens.gruber@...ruber.com; hkallweit1@...il.com;
>> nbd@....name; harini.katakam@...inx.com
>> Subject: Re: regression from: net: phy: marvell: Avoid unnecessary soft reset
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/19/2019 7:34 PM, liweihang wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've met a similar issue and sent an email to discuss about it before:
>>> Question about setting speed and duplex failed after auto-negotiation
>>> disabled on marvell phy
>>>
>>> d6ab93364734 net: phy: marvell: Avoid unnecessary soft reset I
>>> reverted this patch and the auto-negotiation works ok.
>>>
>>> Florian, could you please read my previous email and give me some advice?
>>
>> If you can copy the patch author on that email the next time that will help
>> expedite things.
>>
>> So the problem seems to come from the fact that unless the BCMR_RESET bit
>> is written, then m88e1121_config_aneg_rgmii_delays() has no effect, does
>> that sound like what you are observing?
>>
>> Does the following work for you (Phil and yourself)?
> 
> Thank you, Florian. But that didn't work for me either. I think the key question is
> as what Heiner said, some bits need to be preserved.
> 
> The MII_BMCR contained information of speed and duplex mode, but when we 
> call genphy_soft_reset(), these bits will be cleared.
> 
I think instead of

ret = phy_write(phydev, MII_BMCR, BMCR_RESET);

we should use

ret = phy_set_bits(phydev, MII_BMCR, BMCR_RESET);

This is still in line with Clause 22 but covers more PHY's. A lot of PHY's
won't be affected because they reset all BMCR bits to a default anyway.
Could you please test this? If it's ok for you I'd submit a patch.

>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/marvell.c b/drivers/net/phy/marvell.c index
>> 3ccba37bd6dd..6a1ea4c2042a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/phy/marvell.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/marvell.c
>> @@ -448,6 +448,10 @@ static int m88e1121_config_aneg(struct phy_device
>> *phydev)
>>                 err = m88e1121_config_aneg_rgmii_delays(phydev);
>>                 if (err < 0)
>>                         return err;
>> +
>> +               err = genphy_soft_reset(phydev);
>> +               if (err < 0)
>> +                       return err;
>>         }
>>
>>         err = marvell_set_polarity(phydev, phydev->mdix_ctrl);
>>
>