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

[Ben Brown]

On 7/3/26 11:04, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 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

This may be needed on the other marvell phys, but I only have access to 
a 88E1512 phy so I am only updating what I have seen this on.