Re: [PATCH] net/phy: micrel: Add workaround for bad autoneg

From: Nathan Sullivan
Date: Wed Oct 21 2015 - 15:42:54 EST


On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 12:20:21PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 2015-10-21 12:17 GMT-07:00 Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@xxxxxx>:
> > Very rarely, the KSZ9031 will appear to complete autonegotiation, but
> > will drop all traffic afterwards. When this happens, the idle error
> > count will read 0xFF after autonegotiation completes. Reset the PHY
> > when in that state.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@xxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/phy/micrel.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/micrel.c b/drivers/net/phy/micrel.c
> > index 499185e..cf6312f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/phy/micrel.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/phy/micrel.c
> > @@ -514,6 +514,27 @@ static int ksz8873mll_read_status(struct phy_device *phydev)
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > +static int ksz9031_read_status(struct phy_device *phydev)
> > +{
> > + int err;
> > + int regval;
> > +
> > + err = genphy_read_status(phydev);
> > + if (err)
> > + return err;
> > +
> > + /* Make sure the PHY is not broken. Read idle error count,
> > + * and reset the PHY if it is maxed out.
> > + */
> > + regval = phy_read(phydev, MII_STAT1000);
> > + if ((regval & 0xFF) == 0xFF) {
>
> Don't you also need to set phydev->state to PHY_READY here to force
> the state machine to restart?
>

I don't think so, we stay in the PHY_AN state since phy_init_hw will restart
autonegotiation. Setting link=0 will go through PHY_NOLINK then back to
PHY_AN, so we wait for autoneg to complete again.

> > + phy_init_hw(phydev);
> > + phydev->link = 0;
> > + }
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > static int ksz8873mll_config_aneg(struct phy_device *phydev)
> > {
> > return 0;
> > @@ -772,7 +793,7 @@ static struct phy_driver ksphy_driver[] = {
> > .driver_data = &ksz9021_type,
> > .config_init = ksz9031_config_init,
> > .config_aneg = genphy_config_aneg,
> > - .read_status = genphy_read_status,
> > + .read_status = ksz9031_read_status,
> > .ack_interrupt = kszphy_ack_interrupt,
> > .config_intr = kszphy_config_intr,
> > .suspend = genphy_suspend,
> > --
> > 1.7.10.4
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Florian
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