Re: [PATCH v1] net: phy: fix auto-negotiation stall due to unavailable interrupt

[Florian Fainelli]

On 04/25/2017 01:26 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:09:11 +0200
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 25/04/2017 at 18:25:30 +0300, Alexander Kochetkov wrote:
>>> Hello David!
>>>
>>>> 25 ÐÐÑ. 2017 Ð., Ð 17:36, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ÐÐÐÐÑÐÐ(Ð):
>>>>
>>>> So... what are we doing here?
>>>>
>>>> My understanding is that this should fix the same problem that commit
>>>> 99f81afc139c6edd14d77a91ee91685a414a1c66 ("phy: micrel: Disable auto
>>>> negotiation on startup") fixed and that this micrel commit should thus
>>>> be reverted to improve MAC startup times which regressed.
>>>>
>>>> Florian, any guidance?
>>>
>>> Yes, this should be done.
>>>
>>> I aksed Alexandre to check if 99f81afc139c6edd14d77a91ee91685a414a1c66 ("phy: micrel: Disable auto
>>> negotiation on startupÂ) can be reverted, and he answered what it may do that
>>> sometime this/next week.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, it can be safely reverted after Alexander's patch. I had to test on
>> v4.7 because we are not using interrupts on those boards since v4.8
>> (another issue to be fixed).
>>
>> As Florian pointed out, at the time I sent my patch, I didn't have time
>> to investigate whether this was affecting other phys, see
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/26/766
>>
>> I can send the revert or you can do it.
> 
> I can take care of it, thanks for testing.

Thanks! Can you add the following Fixes tag:

Fixes: 321beec5047a (net: phy: Use interrupts when available in NOLINK
state)

BTW, can you have the netdev patchwork instance automatically accepted
Fixes: tag sent as replies to patches? (just like Acked-by, Reviewed-by
and so on are already accepted)?
-- 
Florian