mv643xx_eth and MDIO bus PM resume

[saeed bishara]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Simon Guinot <simon at sequanux.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get some PM support for Kirkwood machines and I have to
> deal with the MDIO bus driver which trigger a kernel crash at resume.
>
> The Kirkwood SoC Ethernet driver is mv643xx_eth and don't use the PAL
> machine state. The PHY is handled by calling manually PHY functions.
>
> The problem is that the current mdio_bus_resume() implementation
> _always_ start at resume the PAL state machine even if the driver can't
> handle that. That's the mv643xx_eth case, which don't provide the
> adjust_link() method.
>
> Any hint to fix this issue is welcome.
Simon, can you please post your patch to this driver that adds PM support?
saeed