Re: [PATCH net-next] Revert "net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Defer port enabling to calling port_enable"
From: David Miller
Date: Sat Sep 30 2017 - 23:03:16 EST
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 11:19:06 -0700
> This reverts commit e85ec74ace29 ("net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Defer port
> enabling to calling port_enable") because this now makes an unbind
> followed by a bind to fail connecting to the ingrated PHY.
>
> What this patch missed is that we need the PHY to be enabled with
> bcm_sf2_gphy_enable_set() before probing it on the MDIO bus. This is
> correctly done in the ops->setup() function, but by the time
> ops->port_enable() runs, this is too late. Upon unbind we would power
> down the PHY, and so when we would bind again, the PHY would be left
> powered off.
>
> Fixes: e85ec74ace29 ("net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Defer port enabling to calling port_enable")
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Applied.