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Christian Lamparter 19d90ece81 net: emac: fix reset timeout with AR8035 phy
This patch fixes a problem where the AR8035 PHY can't be
detected on an Cisco Meraki MR24, if the ethernet cable is
not connected on boot.

Russell Senior provided steps to reproduce the issue:
|Disconnect ethernet cable, apply power, wait until device has booted,
|plug in ethernet, check for interfaces, no eth0 is listed.
|
|This appears to be a problem during probing of the AR8035 Phy chip.
|When ethernet has no link, the phy detection fails, and eth0 is not
|created. Plugging ethernet later has no effect, because there is no
|interface as far as the kernel is concerned. The relevant part of
|the boot log looks like this:
|this is the failing case:
|
|[    0.876611] /plb/opb/emac-rgmii@ef601500: input 0 in RGMII mode
|[    0.882532] /plb/opb/ethernet@ef600c00: reset timeout
|[    0.888546] /plb/opb/ethernet@ef600c00: can't find PHY!
|and the succeeding case:
|
|[    0.876672] /plb/opb/emac-rgmii@ef601500: input 0 in RGMII mode
|[    0.883952] eth0: EMAC-0 /plb/opb/ethernet@ef600c00, MAC 00:01:..
|[    0.890822] eth0: found Atheros 8035 Gigabit Ethernet PHY (0x01)

Based on the comment and the commit message of
commit 23fbb5a87c ("emac: Fix EMAC soft reset on 460EX/GT").
This is because the AR8035 PHY doesn't provide the TX Clock,
if the ethernet cable is not attached. This causes the reset
to timeout and the PHY detection code in emac_init_phy() is
unable to detect the AR8035 PHY. As a result, the emac driver
bails out early and the user left with no ethernet.

In order to stay compatible with existing configurations, the driver
tries the current reset approach at first. Only if the first attempt
timed out, it does perform one more retry with the clock temporarily
switched to the internal source for just the duration of the reset.

LEDE-Bug: #687 <https://bugs.lede-project.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=687>

Cc: Chris Blake <chrisrblake93@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Russell Senior <russell@personaltelco.net>
Fixes: 23fbb5a87c ("emac: Fix EMAC soft reset on 460EX/GT")
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-06-08 10:47:21 -04:00
arch bpf, arm64: use separate register for state in stxr 2017-06-07 15:27:20 -04:00
block block: Avoid that blk_exit_rl() triggers a use-after-free 2017-06-01 13:07:55 -06:00
certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto crypto: skcipher - Add missing API setkey checks 2017-05-18 13:04:05 +08:00
Documentation net: fix up hash documentation 2017-06-07 13:00:41 -04:00
drivers net: emac: fix reset timeout with AR8035 phy 2017-06-08 10:47:21 -04:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs fs/ufs: Set UFS default maximum bytes per file 2017-06-04 16:33:54 -07:00
include net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private netdev state. 2017-06-07 15:53:24 -04:00
init Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-10 10:30:46 -07:00
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kernel Merge branch 'for-4.12-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2017-06-05 15:37:03 -07:00
lib test_bpf: Add a couple of tests for BPF_JSGE. 2017-05-25 14:37:56 -04:00
mm mm: consider memblock reservations for deferred memory initialization sizing 2017-06-02 15:07:38 -07:00
net decnet: dn_rtmsg: Improve input length sanitization in dnrmg_receive_user_skb 2017-06-08 10:38:54 -04:00
samples samples/bpf: run cleanup routines when receiving SIGTERM 2017-05-11 21:43:30 -04:00
scripts scripts/gdb: make lx-dmesg command work (reliably) 2017-06-02 15:07:38 -07:00
security Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-09 09:12:53 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 4.12-rc4 2017-06-02 09:40:47 -07:00
tools powerpc fixes for 4.12 #4 2017-05-27 09:28:34 -07:00
usr initramfs: fix disabling of initramfs (and its compression) 2017-06-02 15:07:37 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Hold slots_lock when unregistering kvm io bus devices 2017-05-18 11:18:16 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
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Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
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