netdev - Re: [PATCH 01/20] net: phy: realtek: Fix events detection failure in LPI mode

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Date:   Mon, 8 Feb 2021 16:27:36 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@...kalelectronics.ru>
Cc:     Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@...opsys.com>,
        Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>,
        Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@...kalelectronics.ru>,
        Pavel Parkhomenko <Pavel.Parkhomenko@...kalelectronics.ru>,
        Vyacheslav Mitrofanov 
        <Vyacheslav.Mitrofanov@...kalelectronics.ru>,
        Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/20] net: phy: realtek: Fix events detection failure in
 LPI mode

On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 05:03:22PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> It has been noticed that RTL8211E PHY stops detecting and reporting events
> when EEE is successfully advertised and RXC stopping in LPI is enabled.
> The freeze happens right after 3.0.10 bit (PC1R "Clock Stop Enable"
> register) is set. At the same time LED2 stops blinking as if EEE mode has
> been disabled. Notably the network traffic still flows through the PHY
> with no obvious problem. Anyway if any MDIO read procedure is performed
> after the "RXC stop in LPI" mode is enabled PHY gets to be unfrozen, LED2
> starts blinking and PHY interrupts happens again. The problem has been
> noticed on RTL8211E PHY working together with DW GMAC 3.73a MAC and
> reporting its event via a dedicated IRQ signal. (Obviously the problem has
> been unnoticed in the polling mode, since it gets naturally fixed by the
> periodic MDIO read procedure from the PHY status register - BMSR.)
> 
> In order to fix that problem we suggest to locally re-implement the MMD
> write method for RTL8211E PHY and perform a dummy read right after the
> PC1R register is accessed to enable the RXC stopping in LPI mode.

Hi Serge

Is this listed in an Errata from Realtek?

   Andrew