On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 09:04:11PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > > On 9/2/2020 9:39 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > This patch series takes care of enabling the Ethernet PHY clocks in > > DT-based systems (we have no way to do it for ACPI, and ACPI would > > likely keep all of this hardware enabled anyway). > > > > Please test on your respective platforms, mine still seems to have > > a race condition that I am tracking down as it looks like we are not > > waiting long enough post clock enable. > > > > The check on the clock reference count is necessary to avoid an > > artificial bump of the clock reference count and to support the unbind > > -> bind of the PHY driver. We could solve it in different ways. > > > > Comments and test results welcome! > > Andrew, while we figure out a proper way to support this with the Linux > device driver model, would you be opposed in a single patch to > drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-unimac.c which takes care of enabling the PHY's > clock during bus->reset just for the sake of getting those systems to work, > and later on we move over to the pre-probe mechanism? > > That would allow me to continue working with upstream kernels on these > systems without carrying a big pile of patches.
We do have quite a need for the proper solution. I wouldn't want you dropping the proper solution because you have a hack in place. Please add a comment: "HORRIBLE TEMPORARY HACK", to give you motivation to remove it again :-) Andrew
