From: Lothar Waßmann <redacted> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 7:33 PM

To: Andrew Lunn; David S. Miller; Estevam Fabio-R49496; Greg Ungerer;
Kevin Hao; Lothar Waßmann; Lucas Stach; Duan Fugang-B38611; Philippe
Reynes; Richard Cochran; Russell King; Sascha Hauer; Stefan Agner; linux-
kernel@vger.kernel.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org; Jeff Kirsher; Uwe Kleine-
König
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] net: fec: Reset ethernet PHY whenever the enet_out
clock

This patchset fixes a regression introduced by commit 8fff755e9f8d ("net:
fec: Ensure clocks are enabled while using mdio bus") for ethernet PHYs
that are using ENET_OUT as reference clock (on i.MX6 or i.MX28)

Do you mean commit 8fff755e9f8d cause your problem ?  This commit just manage ipg clock in runtime because mdio bus can access external phy switch no matter netdev status.

I don't think the commit cause phy link up/down issue.  Phy link up/down is due to phy is not ready after power/clock on, it need to do reset.

The first patch is a cleanup patch that removes redundant NULL checks.
The second patch converts the driver to use the 'gpiod' framework.
The third patch makes sure, fec_reset_phy() is called whenever the
    enet_out clock has been (re-)enabled to get the PHY into a
    consistent state.