On 21/12/15 02:40, Roosen Henri wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> Unfortunately Linux kernel commit-8b63ec1837fa4c1ea604b278d201454eb3b85066 
> breaks setting pad-skew settings for Micrel PHY's.
> 
> Please see Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/micrel-ksz90x1.txt: at the 
> examples, it proposes to do PHY pad skew settings at the Ethernet device for 
> autodetected PHY's.
> 
> Multiple boards are using this at the devicetree files: see 
> imx6qdl-nitrogen6x.dtsi, imx6qdl-sabrelite.dtsi, socfpga_arria5_socdk.dts, 
> socfpga_cyclone5_socdk.dts and socfpga_cyclone5_sockit.dts. But of course 
> there might be more users depending on this than the ones which have an 
> in-kernel dts file.
> 
> The micrel.c file searches for the parent of its OpenFirmware node for the 
> skew settings: see ksz9031_config_init(): of_node = dev->parent->of_node; I 
> don't think that was a clean implementation to start with.. But for sure it's 
> incompatible with commit-8b63ec18, because the node of the Ethernet device 
> which has the settings is not found anymore.
> 
> I'm not sure who to put on the copy list to discuss a proper solution, so 
> feel free to get these persons and lists in the loop.

Usually, the best thing is to reply on the mailing-list directive, so
more people can jump in.

This particular issue is fixed with the following commit:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=651df2183543bc92f5dbcf99cd9e236ead0bc4c5
-- 
Florian
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