On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 02:31:54PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 09/28/2016 01:32 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > The phy_start() is used to indicate the PHY is now ready to do its
> > work. The state is changed, normally to PHY_UP which means that both
> > the MAC and the PHY are ready.
> >
> > If the phy driver is using polling, when the next poll happens, the
> > state machine notices the PHY is now in PHY_UP, and kicks off
> > auto-negotiation, if needed.
> >
> > If however, the PHY is using interrupts, there is no polling. The phy
> > is stuck in PHY_UP until the next interrupt comes along. And there is
> > no reason for the PHY to interrupt.
> >
> > Have phy_start() schedule the state machine to run, which both speeds
> > up the polling use case, and makes the interrupt use case actually
> > work.
> >
> > This problems exists whenever there is a state change which will not
> > cause an interrupt. Trigger the state machine in these cases,
> > e.g. phy_error().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch>
>
> No particular objections, this should also fix this:
>
> http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2016/05/17/147
Hi Florian
Yes, i was thinking it probably should have a fixes: tag and be a
separate patch. The hard part will be figuring out when this actually
broke, or does it go all the way back to when interrupt support was
added?
Andrew
