On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 1:21 AM, Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Commit 2aa70f864955 ("net: smsc911x: Quieten netif during suspend")
> addressed the network device parts of the suspend/resume process, but
> this is not enough, we can also need to manage the PHY state machine
> during suspend.
>
> Because Geert indicated that we are going to cut the power to the block,
> we need the hard synchronization that phy_stop_machine() guarantees,
> conversely use phy_start_machine() to resume properly.
>
> There appears to be a desire to enable Wake-on-LAN, which is obviously
> dependent on the PHY not being suspend, so we don't suspend it. A future
> patch should probably add proper support for turning on/off Wake-on-LAN
> on a PHY activity/password etc. basis.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+rene...@glider.be>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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