phy: micrel: ksz8041nl: do not use power down mode
authorStefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:16:47 +0000 (21:16 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:16:38 +0000 (19:16 +0100)
commitd0fd4b3aeea6caab8de8f6ce5b6f0e2c01aff41f
tree699fa2019ac351b2a32e829504c2cefa3cc9d94c
parent89249cd9fa1f009ba6311e232fac1b8b5a19fd9f
phy: micrel: ksz8041nl: do not use power down mode

[ Upstream commit 2641b62d2fab52648e34cdc6994b2eacde2d27c1 ]

Some Micrel KSZ8041NL PHY chips exhibit continuous RX errors after using
the power down mode bit (0.11). If the PHY is taken out of power down
mode in a certain temperature range, the PHY enters a weird state which
leads to continuously reporting RX errors. In that state, the MAC is not
able to receive or send any Ethernet frames and the activity LED is
constantly blinking. Since Linux is using the suspend callback when the
interface is taken down, ending up in that state can easily happen
during a normal startup.

Micrel confirmed the issue in errata DS80000700A [*], caused by abnormal
clock recovery when using power down mode. Even the latest revision (A4,
Revision ID 0x1513) seems to suffer that problem, and according to the
errata is not going to be fixed.

Remove the suspend/resume callback to avoid using the power down mode
completely.

[*] https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/80000700A.pdf

Fixes: 1a5465f5d6a2 ("phy/micrel: Add suspend/resume support to Micrel PHYs")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
Acked-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com>
Signed-off-by: Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@toradex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/phy/micrel.c