On 10/25/2016 07:31 PM, Timur Tabi wrote: > Zefir Kurtisi wrote: >> In a device where the ar8031 operates in SGMII mode, we >> observed that after a suspend-resume cycle in very rare >> cases the copper side autonegotiation secceeds but the >> SGMII side fails to come up. >> >> As a work-around, a patch was provided that on suspend and >> resume powers the SGMII link down and up along with the >> copper side. This fixed the observed failure, but >> introduced a regression Timur Tabi observed: once the SGMII >> is powered down, the PHY is inaccessible by the CPU and >> with that e.g. can't be re-initialized after suspend. >> >> Since the original issue could not be reproduced by others, >> this series provides an alternative handling: >> * the first patch reverts the prvious fix that powers down >> SGMII >> * the second patch adds double-checking for the observed >> failure condition >> >> Zefir Kurtisi (2): >> Revert "at803x: fix suspend/resume for SGMII link" >> at803x: double check SGMII side autoneg > > Tested-by: Timur Tabi <ti...@codeaurora.org> > > With these patches, the problem I was seeing no longer occurs, and the new > code > does not appear to break anything. As before, I still have never seen the > original problem, but this patchset seems to work for both of us. > Thanks for testing.
I could make the double checking configurable and disabled by default, but this would render it useless to detect the potential issue in the field.