On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 10:38:16PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote: > On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 11:32:39PM +0200, Matteo Croce wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 1:48 AM David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: > > > > > > From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <li...@armlinux.org.uk> > > > Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 20:47:53 +0100 > > > > > > > This series fixes a problem with the 88x3310 PHY on Macchiatobin > > > > coming out of powersave mode noticed by Matteo Croce. It seems > > > > that certain PHY firmwares do not properly exit powersave mode, > > > > resulting in a fibre link not coming up. > > > > > > > > The solution appears to be to soft-reset the PHY after clearing > > > > the powersave bit. > > > > > > > > We add support for reporting the PHY firmware version to the kernel > > > > log, and use it to trigger this new behaviour if we have v0.3.x.x > > > > or more recent firmware on the PHY. This, however, is a guess as > > > > the firmware revision documentation does not mention this issue, > > > > and we know that v0.2.1.0 works without this fix but v0.3.3.0 and > > > > later does not. > > > > > > Series applied, thanks. > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > should we queue this to -stable? > > The 10 gbit ports don't work without this fix. > > It has a "Fixes:" tag, so it should be backported automatically.
That is a wild guess that it might happen sometime in the future. Please use the cc: stable@ tag as is documented for the past 15+ years instead of relying on us to randomly notice a Fixes: tag. thanks, greg k-h
