Re: net: stmmac: dwmac-rk: fixes for Wake-on-Lan on RK3288

[Giuseppe CAVALLARO]

On 6/11/2016 3:00 AM, Vincent Palatin wrote:
> In order to support Wake-On-Lan when using the RK3288 integrated MAC
> (with an external RGMII PHY), we need to avoid shutting down the regulator
> of the external PHY when the MAC is suspended as it's currently done in the MAC
> platform code.
> As a first step, create independant callbacks for suspend/resume rather than
> re-using exit/init callbacks. So the dwmac platform driver can behave differently
> on suspend where it might skip shutting the PHY and at module unloading.
> Then update the dwmac-rk driver to switch off the PHY regulator only if we are
> not planning to wake up from the LAN.
> Finally add the PMT interrupt to the MAC device tree configuration, so we can
> wake up the core from it when the PHY has received the magic packet.

IMO these could be sent for net-next and also other glue logic
files should be reworked in order to use the new API for coherence.

Peppe