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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-11-28 22:10:54 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-11-28 22:10:54 -0800
commite561bb29b650d2817d10a4858f1817836ed08399 (patch)
tree0bc92b5bb8a287a8e4a88732f3c64b56d126da58 /drivers/net/phy
parent62e3a931788223048120357ab3f29dcb55c5ef79 (diff)
parent60b548237fed4b4164bab13c994dd9615f6c4323 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Trivial conflict in net/core/filter.c, a locally computed 'sdif' is now an argument to the function. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/phy')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index e06613f2d431..0904002b19a2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -2255,6 +2255,14 @@ int phy_driver_register(struct phy_driver *new_driver, struct module *owner)
new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.remove = phy_remove;
new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.owner = owner;
+ /* The following works around an issue where the PHY driver doesn't bind
+ * to the device, resulting in the genphy driver being used instead of
+ * the dedicated driver. The root cause of the issue isn't known yet
+ * and seems to be in the base driver core. Once this is fixed we may
+ * remove this workaround.
+ */
+ new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.probe_type = PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS;
+
retval = driver_register(&new_driver->mdiodrv.driver);
if (retval) {
pr_err("%s: Error %d in registering driver\n",