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

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Sep 21 2021 - 17:45:38 EST


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.

Agreed.

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

AFAICT "net: stmmac: fix MAC not working when..." is not queued for
5.10.68-rc1 or 5.14.7-rc1.

Best regards,
Pavel
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