From: Alexander Kochetkov <al.koc...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 14:00:04 +0300
> The Ethernet link on an interrupt driven PHY was not coming up if the Ethernet > cable was plugged before the Ethernet interface was brought up. > > The patch trigger PHY state machine to update link state if PHY was requested > to > do auto-negotiation and auto-negotiation complete flag already set. > > During power-up cycle the PHY do auto-negotiation, generate interrupt and set > auto-negotiation complete flag. Interrupt is handled by PHY state machine but > doesn't update link state because PHY is in PHY_READY state. After some time > MAC bring up, start and request PHY to do auto-negotiation. If there are no > new > settings to advertise genphy_config_aneg() doesn't start PHY auto-negotiation. > PHY continue to stay in auto-negotiation complete state and doesn't fire > interrupt. At the same time PHY state machine expect that PHY started > auto-negotiation and is waiting for interrupt from PHY and it won't get it. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Kochetkov <al.koc...@gmail.com> > Cc: stable <sta...@vger.kernel.org> # v4.9+ Applied, and I reverted the micrel commit too. Thanks.
