Commit 3c78f91e authored by Jakub Kicinski's avatar Jakub Kicinski
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Merge branch 'net-phy-smsc-robustness-fixes-for-lan87xx-lan9500'

Oleksij Rempel says:

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net: phy: smsc: robustness fixes for LAN87xx/LAN9500

The SMSC 10/100 PHYs (LAN87xx family) found in smsc95xx (lan95xx)
USB-Ethernet adapters show several quirks around the Auto-MDIX feature:

- A hardware strap (AUTOMDIX_EN) may boot the PHY in fixed-MDI mode, and
  the current driver cannot always override it.

- When Auto-MDIX is left enabled while autonegotiation is forced off,
  the PHY endlessly swaps the TX/RX pairs and never links up.

- The driver sets the enable bit for Auto-MDIX but forgets the override
  bit, so userspace requests are silently ignored.

- Rapid configuration changes can wedge the link if PHY IRQs are
  enabled.

The four patches below make the MDIX state fully predictable and prevent
link failures in every tested strap / autoneg / MDI-X permutation.

Tested on LAN9512 Eval board.
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250703114941.3243890-1-o.rempel@pengutronix.de


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parents 78b7920a 9dfe110c
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