Re: [PATCH] ARM: imx: stop adjusting ar8031 phy tx delay

[Shawn Guo]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 04:12:56AM +0100, André Draszik wrote:
> Recent changes to the Atheros at803x driver cause
> the approach taken here to stop working because
> commit 6d4cd041f0af
> ("net: phy: at803x: disable delay only for RGMII mode")
> and commit cd28d1d6e52e
> ("net: phy: at803x: Disable phy delay for RGMII mode")
> fix the AR8031 driver to configure the phy's (RX/TX)
> delays as per the 'phy-mode' in the device tree.
> 
> In particular, the phy tx (and rx) delays are updated
> again as per the 'phy-mode' *after* the code in here
> runs.
> 
> Things worked before above commits, because the AR8031
> comes out of reset with RX delay enabled, and the
> at803x driver didn't touch the delay configuration at
> all when "rgmii" mode was selected.
> 
> It appears the code in here tries to make device
> trees work that incorrectly specify "rgmii", but
> that can't work any more and it is imperative since
> above commits to have the phy-mode configured
> correctly in the device tree.
> 
> I suspect there are a few imx7d based boards using
> the ar8031 phy and phy-mode = "rgmii", but given I
> don't know which ones exactly, I am not in a
> position to update the respective device trees.
> 
> Hence this patch is simply removing the superfluous
> code from the imx7d initialisation. An alternative
> could be to add a warning instead, but that would
> penalize all boards that have been updated already.
> 
> Signed-off-by: André Draszik <git@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Kate Stewart <kstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@xxxxxxx>
> CC: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Applied, thanks.