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Some MAC controllers (e.g. stmmac) require their connected PHY to
continuously provide a receive clock signal. This can cause issues in two
cases:
1. The clock signal hasn't been started yet by the time the MAC driver
initializes its hardware. This can make the initialization fail, as in
the case of the rzn1 GMAC1 driver.
2. The clock signal is cut during a power saving event. By the time the
MAC is brought back up, the clock signal is still not active since
phylink_start hasn't been called yet. This brings us back to case 1.
If a PHY driver reads this flag, it should ensure that the receive clock
signal is started as soon as possible, and that it isn't brought down when
the PHY goes into suspend.
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
[rgantois: commit log]
Signed-off-by: Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326-rxc_bugfix-v6-1-24a74e5c761f@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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