Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Sep 2021 23:45:28 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5.10 079/122] net: phylink: add suspend/resume support |
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Hi!
> > > Joakim Zhang reports that Wake-on-Lan with the stmmac ethernet driver broke > > > when moving the incorrect handling of mac link state out of mac_config(). > > > This reason this breaks is because the stmmac's WoL is handled by the MAC > > > rather than the PHY, and phylink doesn't cater for that scenario. > > > > > > This patch adds the necessary phylink code to handle suspend/resume events > > > according to whether the MAC still needs a valid link or not. This is the > > > barest minimum for this support. > > > > This adds functions that end up being unused in 5.10. AFAICT we do not > > need this in 5.10. > > It needs to be backported to any kernel that also has > "net: stmmac: fix MAC not working when system resume back with WoL active" > backported to. From what I can tell, the fixes line in that commit > refers to a commit (46f69ded988d) in v5.7-rc1. > > If "net: stmmac: fix MAC not working when system resume back with WoL > active" is not being backported to 5.10, then there is no need to > backport this patch.
Agreed.
> As I'm not being copied on the stmmac commit, I've no idea which kernels > this patch should be backported to.
AFAICT "net: stmmac: fix MAC not working when..." is not queued for 5.10.68-rc1 or 5.14.7-rc1.
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