[PATCH] net phy: poll for a link
Sascha Hauer
s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Thu Oct 25 02:37:11 EDT 2012
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 08:33:59PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 20:06 Wed 24 Oct , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > Since we have phylib we have no instance which polls for a link. This
> > means that network boot often bails out after a powercycle or phy reset.
> > This changes the link status behaviour to:
> >
> > - Always check for a link if the last link test was unsuccesful
> > - If the last check was succesful, check for a link when the last
> > check is longer than 5 seconds ago
> > - Try to get a link for 5 seconds.
> 5 seconds is too long
>
> and check the link is wrong you need to check the autoneg
> the link may be down because no cable
>
> Here we need to check the autoneg is finished
> and the phy is up
>
> so use phy_aneg_done and genphy_config_aneg is for this
phy_aneg_done is not exported and genphy_config_aneg is for phy driver
use only.
Could you prepare a patch for this? You insisted hard on getting this
merged in the first place and seem to know what has to be done.
Sascha
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