On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 09:55:36PM +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 this 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>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch>
Andrew
