Re: [PATCH] net: phy: marvell: Add soft reset for 88E1510

[Andrew Lunn]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2026 at 10:50:34AM +1200, Ben Brown wrote:
> When bringing down then up the link on a 88e1512 phy a link is not
> getting established. This is because the phy is coming out of reset then
> immediately getting configured. During configuration the page is
> unsuccessfully updated causing writes to the wrong registers.
> 
> Add the soft reset function that does a reset then polling read waiting
> for the phy to come back online, at which stage the page register can be
> updated successfully.
> 
> This was tested on a 88E1512 phy, using ip link to bring up/down the
> link.

What makes the 88E1512 special that it needs this, but no other
Marvell PHY does?

	Andrew