Patch "net: phy: Do not perform software reset for Generic PHY" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

net: phy: Do not perform software reset for Generic PHY

to the 4.4-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:
net-phy-do-not-perform-software-reset-for-generic-phy.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

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

From: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 12:34:49 -0800
Subject: net: phy: Do not perform software reset for Generic PHY

From: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>

commit 0878fff1f42c18e448ab5b8b4f6a3eb32365b5b6 upstream.

The Generic PHY driver is a catch-all PHY driver and it should preserve whatever prior initialization has been done by boot loader or firmware agents. For specific PHY device configuration it is expected that a specialized PHY driver would take over that role.

Resetting the generic PHY was a bad idea that has lead to several complaints and downstream workarounds e.g: in OpenWrt/LEDE so restore the behavior prior to 87aa9f9c61ad ("net: phy: consolidate PHY reset in phy_init_hw()").

---
 drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c |    2 +-
 include/linux/phy.h          |    4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -1442,7 +1442,7 @@ static struct phy_driver genphy_driver[]
 	.phy_id		= 0xffffffff,
 	.phy_id_mask	= 0xffffffff,
 	.name		= "Generic PHY",
-	.soft_reset	= genphy_soft_reset,
+	.soft_reset	= genphy_no_soft_reset,
 	.config_init	= genphy_config_init,
 	.features	= PHY_GBIT_FEATURES | SUPPORTED_MII |
 			  SUPPORTED_AUI | SUPPORTED_FIBRE |

@@ -785,6 +785,10 @@ int genphy_read_status(struct phy_device
 int genphy_suspend(struct phy_device *phydev);
 int genphy_resume(struct phy_device *phydev);
 int genphy_soft_reset(struct phy_device *phydev);
+static inline int genphy_no_soft_reset(struct phy_device *phydev)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
 void phy_driver_unregister(struct phy_driver *drv);
 void phy_drivers_unregister(struct phy_driver *drv, int n);
 int phy_driver_register(struct phy_driver *new_driver);

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

queue-4.4/net-phy-do-not-perform-software-reset-for-generic-phy.patch