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From: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, kishon@ti.com, andrew@lunn.ch,
	jason@lakedaemon.net, sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com,
	gregory.clement@free-electrons.com,
	thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com, nadavh@marvell.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mw@semihalf.com,
	stefanc@marvell.com, miquel.raynal@free-electrons.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 05/14] net: mvpp2: do not force the link mode
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 08:55:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170828065545.GC2568@kwain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170825224312.GD20805@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>

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Hi Russell,

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:43:13PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 04:48:12PM +0200, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> > The link mode (speed, duplex) was forced based on what the phylib
> > returns. This should not be the case, and only forced by ethtool
> > functions manually. This patch removes the link mode enforcement from
> > the phylib link_event callback.
> 
> So how does RGMII work (which has no in-band signalling between the PHY
> and MAC)?
> 
> phylib expects the network driver to configure it according to the PHY
> state at link_event time - I think you need to explain more why you
> think that this is not necessary.

Good catch, this won't work properly with RGMII. This could be done
out-of-band according to the spec, but that would use PHY polling and we
do not want that (the same concern was raised by Andrew on another
patch).

I'll keep this mode enforcement for RGMII then.

Thanks!
Antoine

-- 
Antoine Ténart, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-28  6:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-25 14:48 [PATCH net-next v2 00/14] net: mvpp2: comphy configuration Antoine Tenart
2017-08-25 14:48 ` [PATCH net-next v2 01/14] phy: add sgmii and 10gkr modes to the phy_mode enum Antoine Tenart
2017-08-25 14:48 ` [PATCH net-next v2 02/14] phy: add the mvebu cp110 comphy driver Antoine Tenart
2017-08-25 14:48 ` [PATCH net-next v2 03/14] Documentation/bindings: phy: document the Marvell " Antoine Tenart
2017-08-25 14:48 ` [PATCH net-next v2 04/14] net: mvpp2: initialize the comphy Antoine Tenart
2017-08-25 14:48 ` [PATCH net-next v2 05/14] net: mvpp2: do not force the link mode Antoine Tenart
2017-08-25 22:43   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-08-28  6:55     ` Antoine Tenart [this message]
2017-08-28  8:38       ` Marcin Wojtas
2017-08-28  8:51         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-08-28  9:40           ` Antoine Tenart
2017-08-28 11:06             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-08-28 11:32               ` Antoine Tenart
2017-08-25 14:48 ` [PATCH net-next v2 06/14] net: mvpp2: simplify the link_event function Antoine Tenart
2017-08-25 14:48 ` [PATCH net-next v2 07/14] net: mvpp2: improve the link management function Antoine Tenart
2017-08-25 14:48 ` [PATCH net-next v2 08/14] net: mvpp2: check the netif is running in the link_event function Antoine Tenart
2017-08-25 16:49   ` Florian Fainelli
2017-08-25 17:09     ` Antoine Tenart
2017-08-25 14:48 ` [PATCH net-next v2 09/14] net: mvpp2: dynamic reconfiguration of the PHY mode Antoine Tenart
2017-08-25 22:46   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-08-28  6:52     ` Antoine Tenart
2017-08-25 14:48 ` [PATCH net-next v2 10/14] arm64: dts: marvell: extend the cp110 syscon register area length Antoine Tenart
2017-08-25 14:48 ` [PATCH net-next v2 11/14] arm64: dts: marvell: add comphy nodes on cp110 master and slave Antoine Tenart
2017-08-25 14:48 ` [PATCH net-next v2 12/14] arm64: dts: marvell: mcbin: add comphy references to Ethernet ports Antoine Tenart
2017-08-25 14:48 ` [PATCH net-next v2 13/14] arm64: dts: marvell: 7040-db: " Antoine Tenart
2017-08-25 14:48 ` [PATCH net-next v2 14/14] arm64: defconfig: enable Marvell CP110 comphy Antoine Tenart
2017-08-25 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v2 00/14] net: mvpp2: comphy configuration Andrew Lunn
2017-08-25 15:56   ` Antoine Tenart

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