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microchipsw: fix LAN8814 QSGMII soft reset

Currently, moving from a port on one LAN8814 PHY package to another results
in a no traffic flowing on that new port.

It was tracked down to upstream change that fixed the issue that QSGMII
was soft reset on .config_init of each of 4 PHY-s in the package resulting
in a temporary traffic loss until QSGMII resynced.

However, it seems that the QSGMII soft reset timing is crucial and doing
the reset during probe only cause the QSGMII link to become partially
unsynced (Like 2 or 3 lanes are not synced).

So, add an upstream patch[1] to fix this, patch was modified as we
dont have the inband caps currently.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/drivers/net/phy/micrel.c?h=next-20260508&id=e027c218c482c6a0ae1948129ccda3b0a2033368

Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robert.marko@sartura.hr>
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Robert Marko 2026-05-11 10:49:09 +02:00 committed by Robert Marko
parent 7044345016
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From e027c218c482c6a0ae1948129ccda3b0a2033368 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Marko <robert.marko@sartura.hr>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:41:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] net: phy: micrel: fix LAN8814 QSGMII soft reset
LAN8814 QSGMII soft reset was moved into the probe function to avoid
triggering it for each of 4 PHY-s in the package.
However, that broke QSGMII link between the MAC and PHY on most LAN8814
PHY-s, specificaly for us on the Microchip LAN969x switch.
Reading the QSGMII status registers it was visible that lanes were only
partially synced.
It looks like the reset timing is crucial, so lets move the reset back
into the .config_init function but guard it with phy_package_init_once()
to avoid it being triggered on each of 4 PHY-s in the package.
Change the probe function to use phy_package_probe_once() for coma and PtP
setup.
Fixes: 96a9178a29a6 ("net: phy: micrel: lan8814 fix reset of the QSGMII interface")
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robert.marko@sartura.hr>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428134138.1741253-1-robert.marko@sartura.hr
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/phy/micrel.c | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/phy/micrel.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/micrel.c
@@ -4095,6 +4095,13 @@ static int lan8814_config_init(struct ph
{
struct kszphy_priv *lan8814 = phydev->priv;
+ if (phy_package_init_once(phydev))
+ /* Reset the PHY */
+ lanphy_modify_page_reg(phydev, LAN8814_PAGE_COMMON_REGS,
+ LAN8814_QSGMII_SOFT_RESET,
+ LAN8814_QSGMII_SOFT_RESET_BIT,
+ LAN8814_QSGMII_SOFT_RESET_BIT);
+
/* Disable ANEG with QSGMII PCS Host side */
lanphy_modify_page_reg(phydev, LAN8814_PAGE_PORT_REGS,
LAN8814_QSGMII_PCS1G_ANEG_CONFIG,
@@ -4179,13 +4186,7 @@ static int lan8814_probe(struct phy_devi
devm_phy_package_join(&phydev->mdio.dev, phydev,
addr, sizeof(struct lan8814_shared_priv));
- if (phy_package_init_once(phydev)) {
- /* Reset the PHY */
- lanphy_modify_page_reg(phydev, LAN8814_PAGE_COMMON_REGS,
- LAN8814_QSGMII_SOFT_RESET,
- LAN8814_QSGMII_SOFT_RESET_BIT,
- LAN8814_QSGMII_SOFT_RESET_BIT);
-
+ if (phy_package_probe_once(phydev)) {
err = lan8814_release_coma_mode(phydev);
if (err)
return err;