Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ARM: dts: ls1021: Fix SGMII PCS link remaining down after PHY disconnect

From: Shawn Guo
Date: Sun Apr 21 2019 - 04:00:03 EST


On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 02:23:15AM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> Each eTSEC MAC has its own TBI (SGMII) PCS and private MDIO bus.
> But due to a DTS oversight, both SGMII-compatible MACs of the LS1021 SoC
> are pointing towards the same internal PCS. Therefore nobody is
> controlling the internal PCS of eTSEC0.
>
> Upon initial ndo_open, the SGMII link is ok by virtue of U-boot
> initialization. But upon an ifdown/ifup sequence, the code path from
> ndo_open -> init_phy -> gfar_configure_serdes does not get executed for
> the PCS of eTSEC0 (and is executed twice for MAC eTSEC1). So the SGMII
> link remains down for eTSEC0. On the LS1021A-TWR board, to signal this
> failure condition, the PHY driver keeps printing
> '803x_aneg_done: SGMII link is not ok'.
>
> Fixes: 055223d4d22d ("ARM: dts: ls1021a: Enable the eTSEC ports on QDS and TWR")
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@xxxxxxx>

To get it land as fix a bit easier, I squashed both patches into one
(with a little edit on commit log), and applied it.

Shawn