Re: [PATCH REPOST] usbnet: asix: leave the carrier control to phylink

[Paolo Abeni]

On 4/7/25 2:08 PM, Krzysztof Hałasa wrote:
> [added Oleksij - the author of the phylink code for this driver]
> 
> ASIX AX88772B based USB 10/100 Ethernet adapter doesn't come
> up ("carrier off"), despite the built-in 100BASE-FX PHY positive link
> indication. The internal PHY is configured (using EEPROM) in fixed
> 100 Mbps full duplex mode.
> 
> The primary problem appears to be using carrier_netif_{on,off}() while,
> at the same time, delegating carrier management to phylink. Use only the
> latter and remove "manual control" in the asix driver.
> 
> I don't have any other AX88772 board here, but the problem doesn't seem
> specific to a particular board or settings - it's probably
> timing-dependent.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khalasa@xxxxxxx>

Does not build:

../drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c:1396:19: error: ‘asix_status’
undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean ‘si_status’?
 1396 |         .status = asix_status,
      |                   ^~~~~~~~~~~
      |                   si_status

/P