Patch "asix: Do full reset during ax88772_bind" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

asix: Do full reset during ax88772_bind

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:

     asix-do-full-reset-during-ax88772_bind.patch

and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Charles Keepax <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 15:49:41 +0000
Subject: asix: Do full reset during ax88772_bind

From: Charles Keepax <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 436c2a5036b6ffe813310df2cf327d3b69be0734 ]

commit 3cc81d85ee01 ("asix: Don't reset PHY on if_up for ASIX 88772") causes the ethernet on Arndale to no longer function. This appears to be because the Arndale ethernet requires a full reset before it will function correctly, however simply reverting the above patch causes problems with ethtool settings getting reset.

It seems the problem is that the ethernet is not properly reset during bind, and indeed the code in ax88772_bind that resets the device is a very small subset of the actual ax88772_reset function. This patch uses ax88772_reset in place of the existing reset code in ax88772_bind which removes some code duplication and fixes the ethernet on Arndale.

It is still possible that the original patch causes some issues with suspend and resume but that seems like a separate issue and I haven't had a chance to test that yet.

---
 drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c |   14 +-------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 13 deletions(-)

@@ -465,19 +465,7 @@ static int ax88772_bind(struct usbnet *d
 		return ret;
 	}
 
-	ret = asix_sw_reset(dev, AX_SWRESET_IPPD | AX_SWRESET_PRL);
-	if (ret < 0)
-		return ret;
-
-	msleep(150);
-
-	ret = asix_sw_reset(dev, AX_SWRESET_CLEAR);
-	if (ret < 0)
-		return ret;
-
-	msleep(150);
-
-	ret = asix_sw_reset(dev, embd_phy ? AX_SWRESET_IPRL : AX_SWRESET_PRTE);
+	ax88772_reset(dev);
 
 	/* Read PHYID register *AFTER* the PHY was reset properly */
 	phyid = asix_get_phyid(dev);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.14/asix-do-full-reset-during-ax88772_bind.patch