Re: [PATCH RFC russell-king 3/4] net: phy: marvell10g: change MACTYPE according to phydev->interface

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 06:13:33PM +0200, Marek Behún wrote:
> The MACTYPE is not being lost. But changing it requires Port Software
> Reset, which resets the link, so it cannot be done for example in
> read_status.

Wouldn't the right place to configure it be in the config_init()
method - which is called once we have a MAC attaching to the PHY?
As I mentioned, if we had a way to pass the MAC interface supported
mask into phylib, config_init() could then use that to determine what
to do.

> I think the MACTYPE should be set sometime during PHY initialisation,
> and only once: either to XFI with rate matching, if the underlying MAC
> does not support lower modes, or to 10gbase-r/2500base-x/sgmii mode, if
> the underlying MAC supports only slower modes than 10G.

Yes - only changing the MAC type if we have good reason to do so to
support other rates.

There is a related problem however.  Note that if you have an 88x3310
(non-P) in the SFP, then when rate matching is enabled, the PHY will
_not_ generate pause frames, and the PHY expects the MAC to be
configured to pace itself to the slower speed.  I don't believe we
have support in MACs for that, but phylib and therefore phylink
provides the information:

	interface - 10GBASE-R
	speed - media speed
	pause - media pause modes

So, if speed != SPEED_10000 and there are no pause modes, we should,
for the sake of the entire link, pace the MAC to the media speed by
controlling its egress rate.

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