On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:09:32 +0100 Christian Melki wrote:
> Following a similar reinstate for the KSZ9031.
>
> Older kernels would use the genphy_soft_reset if the PHY did not
> implement a .soft_reset.
>
> Bluntly removing that default may expose a lot of situations where
> various PHYs/board implementations won't recover on various changes.
> Like with implementation during a 4.9.x to 5.4.x LTS transition.
> I think it's a good thing to remove unwanted soft resets but wonder if
> it did open a can of worms?
>
> Atleast this fixes one iMX6 FEC/RMII/8081 combo.
>
> Fixes: 6e2d85ec0559 ("net: phy: Stop with excessive soft reset")
> Signed-off-by: Christian Melki <christian.me...@t2data.com>
Does not apply to net/master:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/
Please rebase and resend.
Please make sure you CC maintainers and other relevant developers
(you can use ./scripts/get_maintainers.pl $path_to_patch to find them).
