phy/marvell: disable 4-port phys
authorIan Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:30:14 +0000 (08:30 +0000)
committerSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:18:17 +0000 (20:18 +0200)
commit10dc01db23726536684f7858234829d58d339759
tree20fb2e2b0ed087469642950cff7e9a8b6eab1584
parent2fad2926aaf44de80312121808e191f6b0fb2eb6
phy/marvell: disable 4-port phys

Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/723177
Forwarded: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1386932764.20787.85.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk/

The Marvell PHY was originally disabled because it can cause networking
failures on some systems. According to Lennert Buytenhek this is because some
of the variants added did not share the same register layout. Since the known
cases are all 4-ports disable those variants (indicated by a 4 in the
penultimate position of the model name) until they can be audited for
correctness.

[bwh: Also #if-out the init functions for these PHYs to avoid
 compiler warnings]

Gbp-Pq: Topic bugfix/all
Gbp-Pq: Name disable-some-marvell-phys.patch
drivers/net/phy/marvell.c