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>
Sat, 13 Jul 2024 15:45:02 +0000 (17:45 +0200)
commit9fa013b7b839a2389e65fcbf1190757c12b02a50
tree996f2898c7112fa45bfddd090c9de307336df2d7
parenta8ca82a661886da5512643024e19f3614e63be6d
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