Re: [PATCH] ARM: imx_v6_v7_defconfig: Select SMSC_PHY

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Wed Mar 22 2017 - 17:09:41 EST


On 03/22/2017 07:27 AM, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> The imx6sl-evk board has a LAN8720A ethernet phy supported by SMSC_PHY.
> Add this driver to the default imx config since the device is present on
> one of the evaluation boards.
>
> This used to work mostly fine with the generic phy driver but since
> commit 0878fff1f42c18e448ab5b8b4f6a3eb32365b5b6 that driver no longer
> performs a soft reset on startup. This causes netboot to sometimes
> timeout on DHCP because RX doesn't work right. DHCP is eventually retried and
> it works the second time but it takes 90+ seconds to get a login prompt.
>
> This was generated with "make savedefconfig" and it includes a few
> additional minor cleanups.
>
> Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
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Florian