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From: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@newoldbits.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ryan Barnett <ryan.barnett@rockwellcollins.com>,
	Conrad Ratschan <conrad.ratschan@rockwellcollins.com>,
	Hugo Cornelis <hugo.cornelis@essensium.com>,
	Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout.vandecappelle@essensium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: dsa: ksz8795: adjust CPU link to host interface
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 20:43:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAORVsuXtVYKh_nCvCdA7PUWJeJbVJWD43jtkiFwXeg2Qo1mG+A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201201204516.GA2324545@lunn.ch>

Hi Andrew,

On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 9:45 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
>
> > Configure the host port of the switch to match the host interface
> > settings. This is useful when the switch is directly connected to the
> > host MAC interface.
>
> Why do you need this when no other board does? Why is your board
> special?
>
> As i said before, i'm guessing your board has back to back PHYs
> between the SoC and the switch and nobody else does. Is that the
> reason why? Without this, nothing is configuring the switch MAC to the
> results of the auto-neg between the two PHYs?

Yes that is the case. From here I see this patch is too specific to
our setup, and so cannot be considered for merging.

>
> Or am i completely wrong?
No, this is completely right. I will drop this patch then.

Thank you very much for reviewing and for the suggestions.

BR,
Jean

>
>    Andrew
>

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-07 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-01  8:34 [PATCH v2] net: dsa: ksz8795: adjust CPU link to host interface Jean Pihet
2020-12-01 18:41 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-12-01 18:58   ` Jean Pihet
2020-12-01 19:48     ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-12-07 19:41       ` Jean Pihet
2020-12-01 20:45     ` Andrew Lunn
2020-12-07 19:43       ` Jean Pihet [this message]
2020-12-08  2:11         ` Andrew Lunn
     [not found]           ` <CAORVsuX9w_JHjM88YhT02k93vbF3SZmxwYt-E_Tth8xTP04V2w@mail.gmail.com>
2020-12-08 14:15             ` Andrew Lunn

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