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Commit 21d9ba5b authored by Russell King (Oracle)'s avatar Russell King (Oracle) Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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net: phylink: add PHY_F_RXC_ALWAYS_ON to PHY dev flags



Some MAC controllers (e.g. stmmac) require their connected PHY to
continuously provide a receive clock signal. This can cause issues in two
cases:

  1. The clock signal hasn't been started yet by the time the MAC driver
     initializes its hardware. This can make the initialization fail, as in
      the case of the rzn1 GMAC1 driver.
  2. The clock signal is cut during a power saving event. By the time the
     MAC is brought back up, the clock signal is still not active since
     phylink_start hasn't been called yet. This brings us back to case 1.

If a PHY driver reads this flag, it should ensure that the receive clock
signal is started as soon as possible, and that it isn't brought down when
the PHY goes into suspend.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
[rgantois: commit log]
Signed-off-by: default avatarRomain Gantois <romain.gantois@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326-rxc_bugfix-v6-1-24a74e5c761f@bootlin.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent af352c3b
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