Subject: Re: macb: probe of 10090000.ethernet failed with error -110

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 12:55:42 +0100

On Nov 29 2018, Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]> wrote:

> So if we assume you can identify the PHY using its ID registers, you
> can put this reset code into the soft_reset call. That gets called
> first before anything else. There is no need to add a new function to
> phy_driver.

I've tried the following, but it made things only worse, with the
probing not working at all.

Andreas.

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mscc.c b/drivers/net/phy/mscc.c
index 7cae175177..65baf31331 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/mscc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/mscc.c
@@ -1822,6 +1822,23 @@ static int vsc85xx_probe(struct phy_device *phydev)
 	return vsc85xx_dt_led_modes_get(phydev, default_mode);
 }
 
+static int vsc8541_soft_reset(struct phy_device *phydev)
+{
+	/* The VSC8541 has an unexpected feature where a single reset
+	 * rising edge can only be used to enter managed mode.  For
+	 * unmanaged mode a pair of reset rising edges is necessary.
+	 */
+	mdio_device_reset(&phydev->mdio, 0);
+	mdio_device_reset(&phydev->mdio, 1);
+
+	/* After this pair of reset rising edges we must wait at least
+	 * 15ms before writing any phy registers.
+	 */
+	msleep(15);
+
+	return genphy_soft_reset(phydev);
+}
+
 /* Microsemi VSC85xx PHYs */
 static struct phy_driver vsc85xx_driver[] = {
 {
@@ -1908,7 +1925,7 @@ static struct phy_driver vsc85xx_driver[] = {
 	.phy_id_mask    = 0xfffffff0,
 	.features	= PHY_GBIT_FEATURES,
 	.flags		= PHY_HAS_INTERRUPT,
-	.soft_reset	= &genphy_soft_reset,
+	.soft_reset	= &vsc8541_soft_reset,
 	.config_init    = &vsc85xx_config_init,
 	.config_aneg    = &vsc85xx_config_aneg,
 	.aneg_done	= &genphy_aneg_done,
-- 
2.19.2

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