From fe4a7a41767a14dbb148e41b0659be38a696fe07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jose Abreu Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 13:43:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] net: phy: Do not check Link status when loopback is enabled While running stmmac selftests I found that in my 1G setup some tests were failling when running with PHY loopback enabled. It looks like when loopback is enabled the PHY will report that Link is down even though there is a valid connection. As in loopback mode the data will not be sent anywhere we can bypass the logic of checking if Link is valid thus saving unecessary reads. Signed-off-by: Jose Abreu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c index 35d29a823af8..7c92afd36bbe 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c @@ -525,6 +525,12 @@ static int phy_check_link_status(struct phy_device *phydev) WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&phydev->lock)); + /* Keep previous state if loopback is enabled because some PHYs + * report that Link is Down when loopback is enabled. + */ + if (phydev->loopback_enabled) + return 0; + err = phy_read_status(phydev); if (err) return err; -- 2.30.2