Re: [PATCH 5.10 079/122] net: phylink: add suspend/resume support

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 11:28:37PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > Joakim Zhang reports that Wake-on-Lan with the stmmac ethernet driver broke
> > when moving the incorrect handling of mac link state out of mac_config().
> > This reason this breaks is because the stmmac's WoL is handled by the MAC
> > rather than the PHY, and phylink doesn't cater for that scenario.
> > 
> > This patch adds the necessary phylink code to handle suspend/resume events
> > according to whether the MAC still needs a valid link or not. This is the
> > barest minimum for this support.
> 
> This adds functions that end up being unused in 5.10. AFAICT we do not
> need this in 5.10.

It needs to be backported to any kernel that also has
"net: stmmac: fix MAC not working when system resume back with WoL active"
backported to. From what I can tell, the fixes line in that commit
refers to a commit (46f69ded988d) in v5.7-rc1.

If "net: stmmac: fix MAC not working when system resume back with WoL
active" is not being backported to 5.10, then there is no need to
backport this patch.

As I'm not being copied on the stmmac commit, I've no idea which kernels
this patch should be backported to.

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