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This bug was noticed while re-implementing parts of the kernel driver in userspace using spidev. The goal was to enable some of the errata workarounds that Microchip describes in their errata sheet [1]. Both the errata sheet and the regular datasheet of e.g. the KSZ8795 imply that you need to do this for indirect register accesses: - write a 16-bit value to a control register pair (this value consists of the indirect register table, and the offset inside the table) - either read or write an 8-bit value from the data storage register (indicated by REG_IND_BYTE in the kernel) The current implementation has the order swapped. It can be proven, by reading back some indirect register with known content (the EEE register modified in ksz8_handle_global_errata() is one of these), that this implementation does not work. Private discussion with Oleksij Rempel of Pengutronix has revealed that the workaround was apparantly never tested on actual hardware. [1] https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/aemDocuments/documents/OTH/ProductDocuments/Errata/KSZ87xx-Errata-DS80000687C.pdf Signed-off-by: Tobias Jakobi (Compleo) <tobias.jakobi.compleo@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de> Fixes: 7b6e6235b664 ("net: dsa: microchip: ksz8795: handle eee specif erratum") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240304154135.161332-1-tobias.jakobi.compleo@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.