+From: Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt.org>
+Subject: ar71xx: add a workaround for ar8316 not always driving the TA bit to low
+
+AR8316 behind a GPIO bitbanged MDIO bus fails to drive the turnaround bit
+to low despite returning a valid value. Ignore it and just use the
+returned value anyway.
+
+SVN-Revision: 28422
+---
+ drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bitbang.c | 16 ++-----------------
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
+
+--- a/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bitbang.c
++++ b/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bitbang.c
+@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static int mdiobb_cmd_addr(struct mdiobb
+ int mdiobb_read(struct mii_bus *bus, int phy, int reg)
+ {
+ struct mdiobb_ctrl *ctrl = bus->priv;
+- int ret, i;
++ int ret;
+
+ if (reg & MII_ADDR_C45) {
+ reg = mdiobb_cmd_addr(ctrl, phy, reg);
+@@ -162,19 +162,7 @@ int mdiobb_read(struct mii_bus *bus, int
+
+ ctrl->ops->set_mdio_dir(ctrl, 0);
+
+- /* check the turnaround bit: the PHY should be driving it to zero, if this
+- * PHY is listed in phy_ignore_ta_mask as having broken TA, skip that
+- */
+- if (mdiobb_get_bit(ctrl) != 0 &&
+- !(bus->phy_ignore_ta_mask & (1 << phy))) {
+- /* PHY didn't drive TA low -- flush any bits it
+- * may be trying to send.
+- */
+- for (i = 0; i < 32; i++)
+- mdiobb_get_bit(ctrl);
+-
+- return 0xffff;
+- }
++ mdiobb_get_bit(ctrl);
+
+ ret = mdiobb_get_num(ctrl, 16);
+ mdiobb_get_bit(ctrl);