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[PATCH net-next v2 1/7] net: bcmgenet: let the caller decide whether to start the PHY

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From: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
Date: 2026-10-05 22:25:01
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Subsystem: broadcom genet ethernet driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Doug Berger, Florian Fainelli, Nicolai Buchwitz, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

1 review trailer (1 from subsystem maintainers).

bcmgenet_netif_stop() already takes stop_phy, bcmgenet_netif_start() does
not. The MTU change in a later patch leaves the PHY running while the
datapath goes down and comes back, and phy_start() expects a stopped PHY.

Add the same parameter to the start side.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
index 4c9db2f9fc25..a82579879f4b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
@@ -3348,7 +3348,7 @@ static void bcmgenet_get_hw_addr(struct bcmgenet_priv *priv,
 	put_unaligned_be16(addr_tmp, &addr[4]);
 }
 
-static void bcmgenet_netif_start(struct net_device *dev)
+static void bcmgenet_netif_start(struct net_device *dev, bool start_phy)
 {
 	struct bcmgenet_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
 
@@ -3365,7 +3365,8 @@ static void bcmgenet_netif_start(struct net_device *dev)
 	/* Monitor link interrupts now */
 	bcmgenet_link_intr_enable(priv);
 
-	phy_start(dev->phydev);
+	if (start_phy)
+		phy_start(dev->phydev);
 }
 
 static int bcmgenet_open(struct net_device *dev)
@@ -3428,7 +3429,7 @@ static int bcmgenet_open(struct net_device *dev)
 
 	bcmgenet_phy_pause_set(dev, priv->rx_pause, priv->tx_pause);
 
-	bcmgenet_netif_start(dev);
+	bcmgenet_netif_start(dev, true);
 
 	netif_tx_start_all_queues(dev);
 
@@ -4312,7 +4313,7 @@ static int bcmgenet_resume(struct device *d)
 	if (!device_may_wakeup(d))
 		phy_resume(dev->phydev);
 
-	bcmgenet_netif_start(dev);
+	bcmgenet_netif_start(dev, true);
 
 	netif_device_attach(dev);
 
-- 
2.53.0
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