RE: "asix: Don't reset PHY on if_up for ASIX 88772" breaks net on arndale platform

From: Stam, Michel [FINT]
Date: Thu Nov 06 2014 - 07:39:20 EST


Hello Riku and Charles,

I tried this with my original patch and the suggested patch applied,
this seems to work for me too.

One thing that bothers me, is the suspend / resume situation; usbnet.c
seems to call the bind( ) on probe( ). Suspend / resume do not seem to
call bind( ) directly.

As Riku pointed out, the original patch I reverted was because of
suspend/resume issues. I wonder if this will still work?

Kind regards,

Michel Stam

-----Original Message-----
From: Riku Voipio [mailto:riku.voipio@xxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 13:04 PM
To: Charles Keepax
Cc: Riku Voipio; Stam, Michel [FINT]; freddy@xxxxxxxxxxx;
davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-samsung-soc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: "asix: Don't reset PHY on if_up for ASIX 88772" breaks net
on arndale platform

On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 10:01:04AM +0000, Charles Keepax wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 11:06:51AM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
> > The asix on arndale comes semi-configured from u-boot, which I guess

> > is not the state kernel expects it to come in. At least in my case
> > where I use tftp from u-boot to load my kernel.
> >
> > So probably the full reset is needed here to make the asix chip come

> > to a truly pristine state.
> >
> > The commit that Michel partially reverted (by returning to use
> > ax88772_link_reset instead of ax88772_reset), indicates that a
> > strong reset is needed for suspend/resume as well:

> Ok I think I have cracked this one. I am pretty sure you are right
> that the USB comes to us in a strange state and needs a full reset,
> but that only needs to happen once when the driver is bound in. So
> there is some code in ax88772_bind that appears to try to reset the
> device but does a lot less than ax88772_reset and I think that must be

> the problem. Applying the following on top of the patch we have been
> debating I think will make everything work for all of us:

The patch below on top of 3.18-rc3 fixes arndale network for me.

Tested-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@xxxxxxxxxx>

> --- a/drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c
> @@ -465,19 +465,7 @@ static int ax88772_bind(struct usbnet *dev,
> struct usb_interface *in
> return ret;
> }
>
> - ret = asix_sw_reset(dev, AX_SWRESET_IPPD | AX_SWRESET_PRL);
> - if (ret < 0)
> - return ret;
> -
> - msleep(150);
> -
> - ret = asix_sw_reset(dev, AX_SWRESET_CLEAR);
> - if (ret < 0)
> - return ret;
> -
> - msleep(150);
> -
> - ret = asix_sw_reset(dev, embd_phy ? AX_SWRESET_IPRL :
AX_SWRESET_PRTE);
> + ax88772_reset(dev);
>
> If you guys could test that and let me know how you get on I will send

> in a proper patch if it looks good.
>
> Thanks,
> Charles
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