From a058052c358c3ecf5f394ff37def6a45eb26768c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 11:21:25 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] net: phy: do not read configuration register on reset

When doing a software reset, the reset flag should be written without
other bits set. Writing the current state will lead to restoring the
state of the PHY (e.g. Powerdown), which is not what is expected from
a software reset.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
Acked-by: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
---
 drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 11 ++---------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
index 51b5746a5a..ef9f13bd46 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
@@ -717,15 +717,7 @@ int phy_reset(struct phy_device *phydev)
 	}
 #endif
 
-	reg = phy_read(phydev, devad, MII_BMCR);
-	if (reg < 0) {
-		debug("PHY status read failed\n");
-		return -1;
-	}
-
-	reg |= BMCR_RESET;
-
-	if (phy_write(phydev, devad, MII_BMCR, reg) < 0) {
+	if (phy_write(phydev, devad, MII_BMCR, BMCR_RESET) < 0) {
 		debug("PHY reset failed\n");
 		return -1;
 	}
@@ -738,6 +730,7 @@ int phy_reset(struct phy_device *phydev)
 	 * auto-clearing).  This should happen within 0.5 seconds per the
 	 * IEEE spec.
 	 */
+	reg = phy_read(phydev, devad, MII_BMCR);
 	while ((reg & BMCR_RESET) && timeout--) {
 		reg = phy_read(phydev, devad, MII_BMCR);
 
-- 
2.39.5