RE: SMSC9730 Autosuspend/Resume Questions

[Nisar.Sayed]

Hi Frieder,

> Hi,
> 
> I recently tested a board with SMSC9730 connected via USB HSIC to an
> i.MX6S SOC. I used these patches on top of v4.14-rc8 for the USB HSIC
> support: [1].
> 
> When I turned on autosuspend, the smsc95xx stopped in the middle of the
> suspending routine and /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb3/3-
> 1/power/runtime_status reported "suspending"
> forever.
> 
> With some debug logs I found out, that the last line of code that was
> executed is [2], after that I didn't get any further messages.
> 
> Then I applied the following diff and the suspend/resume started to work
> reliably:
> 
> @@ -1382,10 +1385,11 @@ static int smsc95xx_link_ok_nopm(struct usbnet
> *dev)
>          ret = smsc95xx_mdio_read_nopm(dev->net, mii->phy_id, MII_BMSR);
>          if (ret < 0)
>                  return ret;
> -
> +       /*
>          ret = smsc95xx_mdio_read_nopm(dev->net, mii->phy_id, MII_BMSR);
>          if (ret < 0)
>                  return ret;
> +       */
> 
>          return !!(ret & BMSR_LSTATUS);
>   }
> 
> So it seems like the dummy read, that is commented with "first, a dummy
> read, needed to latch some MII phys" causes problems in my setup. Do you
> have an idea what could be the reason? Is this a proper fix?
>
 
Link status bit is latch low register and needs to be read twice. You may get wrong Link status with this fix.

- Nisar