On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 09:09:06AM +0000, Radu Pirea wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-08-30 at 13:35 +0200, Sabrina Dubroca wrote:
> ...
>
> > And it's not restored when the link goes back up? That's inconvenient
> > :/
> > Do we end up with inconsistent state? ie driver and core believe
> > everything is still offloaded, but HW lost all state? do we leak
> > some resources allocated by the driver?
>
> Yes. We end up with inconsistent state. The HW will lost all state when
> the phy is reseted. No resource is leaked, everything is there, but the
> configuration needs to be reapplied.
If it's happening because the PHY is being re-attached from the network
driver, then wouldn't it be a good idea to synchronise the hardware
state with the software configuration in the ->config_init function?
Presumably the hardware state is also lost when resuming from suspend
as well? If so, that'll also fix that issue as well.
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