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On 2022. 08. 30. 19:21, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Csókás Bence <csokas.bence@prolan.hu>
> 
> [ Upstream commit f79959220fa5fbda939592bf91c7a9ea90419040 ]
> 
> On link state change, the controller gets reset,
> causing PPS to drop out and the PHC to lose its
> time and calibration. So we restart it if needed,
> restoring calibration and time registers.

There is an ongoing investigation on netdev@ about a potential kernel 
panic on kernels newer than 5.12 with this patch applied. Please hold 
off on backporting to 5.15 until the bugfix is applied to upstream.