Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 33/98] ARM: dts: imx6ul-14x14-evk: Add ksz8081 phy properties

[Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com>]

On 10/25/2018 5:15 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit e6f4292ae0a1e73fae26ced57de13a48f71ad1fa ]
> 
> Right now mach-imx6ul registers a fixup for the ksz8081 phy. The same
> register values can be set through the micrel phy driver by using dts
> properties.
> 
> This seems preferable and allows cleanly fixing suspend/resume.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com>
> Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@nxp.com>
> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

This patch only fixes suspend on 6ul evk in combination with 
79e498a9c7da ("net: phy: micrel: Restore led_mode and clk_sel on 
resume"). It is otherwise not very useful to backport just the DT patch.

That patch was earlier backported but then reverted from 4.9 because it 
unexpectedly caused issues when combined with other phy patches applied 
out-of-order. It seems a correct fix was eventually made (by backporting 
bfe72442578b) and 79e498a9c7da could now be restored:

     https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/11/972

I'm not sure fixing nfsroot suspend/resume on dev boards meets the 
criteria for linux-stable, especially since it already caused trouble 
once. In general I'd class "fixing things that never worked before" as 
not particularly suitable for backporting.

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Regards,
Leonard