netdev - [PATCH net] r8169: fix wrong PHY ID issue with RTL8168dp

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Date:   Fri, 1 Nov 2019 00:10:21 +0100
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net] r8169: fix wrong PHY ID issue with RTL8168dp

As reported in [0] at least one RTL8168dp version has problems
establishing a link. This chip version has an integrated RTL8211b PHY,
however the chip seems to report a wrong PHY ID, resulting in a wrong
PHY driver (for Generic Realtek PHY) being loaded.
Work around this issue by adding a hook to r8168dp_2_mdio_read()
for returning the correct PHY ID.

[0] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=246508

Fixes: 242cd9b5866a ("r8169: use phy_resume/phy_suspend")
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
---
On kernel 4.19 the patch will not apply because source file
was renamed later from r8169.c to r8169_main.c.
Changing name of file to be patched should be sufficient.
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
index dfd92f61e..0704f8bd1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
@@ -1023,6 +1023,10 @@ static int r8168dp_2_mdio_read(struct rtl8169_private *tp, int reg)
 {
 	int value;
 
+	/* Work around issue with chip reporting wrong PHY ID */
+	if (reg == MII_PHYSID2)
+		return 0xc912;
+
 	r8168dp_2_mdio_start(tp);
 
 	value = r8169_mdio_read(tp, reg);
-- 
2.23.0