linux/drivers
Timur Tabi 246096690b net: qcom/emac: do not use hardware mdio automatic polling
Use software polling (PHY_POLL) to check for link state changes instead
of relying on the EMAC's hardware polling feature.  Some PHY drivers
are unable to get a functioning link because the HW polling is not
robust enough.

The EMAC is able to poll the PHY on the MDIO bus looking for link state
changes (via the Link Status bit in the Status Register at address 0x1).
When the link state changes, the EMAC triggers an interrupt and tells the
driver what the new state is.  The feature eliminates the need for
software to poll the MDIO bus.

Unfortunately, this feature is incompatible with phylib, because it
ignores everything that the PHY core and PHY drivers are trying to do.
In particular:

1. It assumes a compatible register set, so PHYs with different registers
   may not work.

2. It doesn't allow for hardware errata that have work-arounds implemented
   in the PHY driver.

3. It doesn't support multiple register pages. If the PHY core switches
   the register set to another page, the EMAC won't know the page has
   changed and will still attempt to read the same PHY register.

4. It only checks the copper side of the link, not the SGMII side.  Some
   PHY drivers (e.g. at803x) may also check the SGMII side, and
   report the link as not ready during autonegotiation if the SGMII link
   is still down.  Phylib then waits for another interrupt to query
   the PHY again, but the EMAC won't send another interrupt because it
   thinks the link is up.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.11.x
Tested-by: Manoj Iyer <manoj.iyer@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-06-04 19:32:09 -04:00
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accessibility
acpi Merge branches 'acpi-button' and 'acpi-tools' 2017-05-22 20:29:06 +02:00
amba
android
ata ARM: SoC driver updates 2017-05-09 10:01:15 -07:00
atm
auxdisplay
base Merge branches 'pm-sleep' and 'powercap' 2017-05-22 20:32:05 +02:00
bcma
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-05-20 16:12:30 -07:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: hci_ldisc: Add protocol check to hci_uart_tx_wakeup() 2017-04-30 12:22:14 +02:00
bus
cdrom
char drivers: char: mem: Check for address space wraparound with mmap() 2017-05-18 16:53:55 +02:00
clk Sort of on the quieter side this time, which is probably due more 2017-05-10 13:38:18 -07:00
clocksource Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-12 10:43:25 -07:00
connector
cpufreq Merge branches 'intel_pstate', 'pm-cpufreq' and 'pm-cpufreq-sched' 2017-05-22 20:28:22 +02:00
cpuidle Merge branches 'pm-domains', 'pm-cpuidle', 'pm-sleep' and 'powercap' 2017-05-09 23:21:46 +02:00
crypto virtio: fixes, cleanups, performance 2017-05-10 11:33:08 -07:00
dax dax: fix false CONFIG_BLOCK dependency 2017-05-13 16:18:21 -07:00
dca
devfreq
dio
dma dmaengine updates for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-09 15:40:28 -07:00
dma-buf
edac EDAC, amd64: Fix reporting of Chip Select sizes on Fam17h 2017-05-03 16:27:36 +02:00
eisa
extcon
firewire
firmware More, and hopefully final, fixes after refactor for EFI pstore backend. 2017-05-22 19:31:07 -07:00
fmc
fpga fpga fr br: update supported version numbers 2017-04-26 11:38:56 +02:00
fsi
gpio Annotation of module parameters that specify device settings 2017-05-10 19:13:03 -07:00
gpu Merge branch 'drm-fixes-4.12' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux into drm-fixes 2017-05-26 11:51:55 +10:00
hid Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2017-05-02 19:09:35 -07:00
hsi
hv char/misc patches for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-04 19:15:35 -07:00
hwmon hwmon: (coretemp) Handle frozen hotplug state correctly 2017-05-14 07:49:32 -07:00
hwspinlock
hwtracing drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu.c: use set_memory.h header 2017-05-08 17:15:14 -07:00
i2c i2c: designware: Fix bogus sda_hold_time due to uninitialized vars 2017-05-22 19:22:19 -07:00
ide ide: don't call memcpy with the same source and destination 2017-05-08 17:36:39 -04:00
idle x86/intel_idle: add Gemini Lake support 2017-05-01 23:17:37 +02:00
iio Annotation of module parameters that specify device settings 2017-05-10 19:13:03 -07:00
infiniband Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2017-05-12 11:44:13 -07:00
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2017-05-13 10:25:05 -07:00
iommu iommu/mediatek: Include linux/dma-mapping.h 2017-05-17 14:51:54 +02:00
ipack
irqchip Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-21 11:45:26 -07:00
isdn mISDN: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug 2017-06-01 14:49:47 -04:00
leds leds: pca955x: Correct I2C Functionality 2017-05-22 21:12:44 +02:00
lguest
lightnvm lightnvm: fix bad back free on error path 2017-05-04 07:53:04 -06:00
macintosh DeviceTree for 4.12: 2017-05-05 19:33:07 -07:00
mailbox mailbox: handle empty message in tx_tick 2017-04-27 16:20:04 +05:30
mcb
md Merge tag 'md/4.12-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md 2017-05-18 12:04:41 -07:00
media Annotation of module parameters that specify device settings 2017-05-10 19:13:03 -07:00
memory memory: omap-gpmc: Fix debug output for access width 2017-05-16 08:12:47 -07:00
memstick
message scsi: mpt: Move scsi_remove_host() out of mptscsih_remove_host() 2017-04-24 18:21:17 -04:00
mfd mfd: axp20x: Support AXP803 variant 2017-04-27 11:54:49 +01:00
misc misc: pci_endpoint_test: select CRC32 2017-05-16 23:05:40 +02:00
mmc This pull request contains fixes to make the WiFi work again for the ARM64 2017-05-26 09:05:35 -07:00
mtd This pull request contains updates for both UBI and UBIFS: 2017-05-13 10:23:12 -07:00
net net: qcom/emac: do not use hardware mdio automatic polling 2017-06-04 19:32:09 -04:00
nfc
ntb
nubus
nvdimm Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm 2017-05-12 15:43:10 -07:00
nvme nvme: Quirk APST on Intel 600P/P3100 devices 2017-05-26 11:53:02 +03:00
nvmem ARM: SoC driver updates 2017-05-09 10:01:15 -07:00
of MMC host: 2017-05-24 08:21:56 -07:00
oprofile
parisc
parport
pci PCI/PM: Add needs_resume flag to avoid suspend complete optimization 2017-05-23 14:18:17 -05:00
pcmcia Annotation of module parameters that specify device settings 2017-05-10 19:13:03 -07:00
perf
phy
pinctrl Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2017-05-02 19:09:35 -07:00
platform char/misc patches for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-04 19:15:35 -07:00
pnp
power power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
powercap PowerCap: Fix an error code in powercap_register_zone() 2017-05-14 13:30:05 +02:00
pps
ps3
ptp Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 16:15:18 -07:00
pwm
rapidio char/misc patches for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-04 19:15:35 -07:00
ras
regulator Merge remote-tracking branch 'regulator/topic/vctrl' into regulator-next 2017-04-30 22:17:44 +09:00
remoteproc virtio: fixes, cleanups, performance 2017-05-10 11:33:08 -07:00
reset ARM: SoC driver updates 2017-05-09 10:01:15 -07:00
rpmsg virtio: fixes, cleanups, performance 2017-05-10 11:33:08 -07:00
rtc Merge branches 'pm-sleep' and 'powercap' 2017-05-22 20:32:05 +02:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2017-05-16 09:24:44 -07:00
sbus
scsi SCSI fixes on 20170524 2017-05-24 20:29:53 -07:00
sfi
sh
sn
soc ARM: SoC fixes (and a cross-arch dt-include fix) 2017-05-19 13:36:56 -07:00
spi Merge remote-tracking branches 'spi/topic/ti-qspi' and 'spi/topic/xlp' into spi-next 2017-04-26 15:58:22 +01:00
spmi
ssb
staging staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: add ETHERNET dependency 2017-05-16 14:23:31 +02:00
target Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2017-05-12 11:44:13 -07:00
tc
tee Linux 4.12-rc1 2017-05-18 23:54:47 -07:00
thermal Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux 2017-05-12 11:58:45 -07:00
thunderbolt
tty Annotation of module parameters that specify device settings 2017-05-10 19:13:03 -07:00
uio uio: fix incorrect memory leak cleanup 2017-05-16 23:06:41 +02:00
usb USB-serial fixes for v4.12-rc2 2017-05-19 10:10:07 +02:00
uwb uwb: fix device quirk on big-endian hosts 2017-05-17 11:27:41 +02:00
vfio powerpc updates for 4.12 part 1. 2017-05-05 11:36:44 -07:00
vhost mm: support __GFP_REPEAT in kvmalloc_node for >32kB 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
video fbdev changes for v4.12: 2017-05-11 11:12:26 -07:00
virt drivers/virt/fsl_hypervisor.c: use get_user_pages_unlocked() 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
virtio virtio: allow extra context per descriptor 2017-05-02 23:41:43 +03:00
vlynq
vme
w1
watchdog watchdog: bcm281xx: Fix use of uninitialized spinlock. 2017-05-19 10:42:25 +02:00
xen Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-09 09:12:53 -07:00
zorro
Kconfig
Makefile Merge branch 'tee/initial-merge' into fixes 2017-05-10 21:03:31 +02:00