Re: [PATCH net] net: stmmac: Fix lack of link transition for fixed PHYs

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Nov 14 2016 - 16:41:05 EST


From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 17:50:35 -0800

> Commit 52f95bbfcf72 ("stmmac: fix adjust link call in case of a switch
> is attached") added some logic to avoid polling the fixed PHY and
> therefore invoking the adjust_link callback more than once, since this
> is a fixed PHY and link events won't be generated.
>
> This works fine the first time, because we start with phydev->irq =
> PHY_POLL, so we call adjust_link, then we set phydev->irq =
> PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT and we stop polling the PHY.
>
> Now, if we called ndo_close(), which calls both phy_stop() and does an
> explicit netif_carrier_off(), we end up with a link down. Upon calling
> ndo_open() again, despite starting the PHY state machine, we have
> PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT set, and we generate no link event at all, so the
> link is permanently down.
>
> 52f95bbfcf72 ("stmmac: fix adjust link call in case of a switch is attached")

I added the missing "Fixes: " here.

> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Florian.