[PATCH 0/3] arm64: dts: v3msk, eagle, draak: Remove renesas, no-ether-link property

[Simon Horman]

Regarding Salvator-X and ULCB boards, Bogdan Mirea says:

    The present change is a bug fix for AVB link iteratively up/down.

    Steps to reproduce:
    - start AVB TX stream (Using aplay via MSE),
    - disconnect+reconnect the eth cable,
    - after a reconnection the eth connection goes iteratively up/down
      without user interaction,
    - this may heal after some seconds or even stay for minutes.

    As the documentation specifies, the "renesas,no-ether-link" option
    should be used when a board does not provide a proper AVB_LINK signal.
    There is no need for this option enabled on RCAR H3/M3 Salvator-X/XS
    and ULCB starter kits since the AVB_LINK is correctly handled by HW.

    Choosing to keep or remove the "renesas,no-ether-link" option will
    have impact on the code flow in the following ways:
    - keeping this option enabled may lead to unexpected behavior since
      the RX & TX are enabled/disabled directly from adjust_link function
      without any HW interrogation,
    - removing this option, the RX & TX will only be enabled/disabled after
      HW interrogation. The HW check is made through the LMON pin in PSR
      register which specifies AVB_LINK signal value (0 - at low level;
      1 - at high level).

    In conclusion, the change is also a safety improvement because it
    removes the "renesas,no-ether-link" option leading to a proper way
    of detecting the link state based on HW interrogation and not on
    software heuristic.

Bogdan Mirea also highlighted that this change may be relevant to the
DTS files for V3M Starter Kit, Draak and Eagle boards. Examination of the
relevant documentation has confirmed this.

Based on renesas-devel-20180115-v4.15-rc8

Simon Horman (3):
  arm64: dts: renesas: v3msk: Remove renesas, no-ether-link property
  arm64: dts: renesas: eagle: Remove renesas, no-ether-link property
  arm64: dts: renesas: draak: Remove renesas, no-ether-link property

 arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a77970-eagle.dts | 1 -
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a77970-v3msk.dts | 1 -
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a77995-draak.dts | 1 -
 3 files changed, 3 deletions(-)

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