From: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:04:13 -0700
> The internal Gigabit PHY on Broadcom STB chips has a digital clock which > drives its MDIO interface among other things, the driver now requests > and manage that clock during .probe() and .remove() accordingly. > > Because the PHY driver can be probed with the clocks turned off we need > to apply the dummy BMSR workaround during the driver probe function to > ensure subsequent MDIO read or write towards the PHY will succeed. > > Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> > --- > Changes in v2: > > - localize the changes exclusively within the PHY driver and do not > involve the MDIO driver at all. Using the ethernet-phyidAAAA.BBBB > compatible string we can get straight to the desired driver without > requiring clocks to be assumed on. Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
