Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: replace preliminary fix for PHY driver sometimes not binding to the device

2018-12-29 Thread Norbert Jurkeit
Am 29.12.18 um 16:44 schrieb Heiner Kallweit: I don't think this patch can have any impact on the issue. Maybe WoL is still active from previous test? Manual WoL settings may survive a reboot, you can disable WoL by "ethtool -s wol d". In theory I agree, but we have seen before that it can

Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: replace preliminary fix for PHY driver sometimes not binding to the device

2018-12-29 Thread Norbert Jurkeit
Am 29.12.18 um 14:55 schrieb Heiner Kallweit: Great, then let's go for one more test. Could you apply the following to 4.19 and start in a fail scenario? I would be interested in the additional dmesg line, just grep for "hk:". diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c b/drivers/net/et

Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: replace preliminary fix for PHY driver sometimes not binding to the device

2018-12-29 Thread Norbert Jurkeit
Am 29.12.18 um 12:54 schrieb Heiner Kallweit: Good to know, I'll check. In this context, do you have Wake-on-LAN enabled? IOW, what does "ethtool " state in line "Wake-on:" ? "ethtool enp1s0" yields     Supports Wake-on: pumbg     Wake-on: d Unfortunately I could not find any BIOS switch to e

Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: replace preliminary fix for PHY driver sometimes not binding to the device

2018-12-29 Thread Norbert Jurkeit
Am 29.12.18 um 03:48 schrieb Florian Fainelli: Heiner; are you positive that the PHY is not in a power down mode (BMCR.PDOWN = 1) at the time the r8169 probe is done? Because if that was the case, there is no guarantee (per 802.3 clause 22 spec) that the PHY must correctly respond to MDIO operati