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From: "Marek Behún" <kabel@kernel.org>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 5/6] net: dsa: always use phylink for CPU and DSA ports
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 21:34:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220701213435.53ecdd70@thinkpad> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1o6XAV-004pW2-Ct@rmk-PC.armlinux.org.uk>

On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 13:51:43 +0100
"Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:

> Currently, we only use phylink for CPU and DSA ports if there is a
> fixed-link specification, or a PHY specified. The reason for this
> behaviour is that when neither is specified, there was no way for
> phylink to know the link parameters.
> 
> Now that we have phylink_set_max_link_speed() (which has become
> possible through the addition of mac_capabilities) we now have the
> ability to know the maximum link speed for a specific link, and can
> now use phylink for this case as well.
> 
> However, we need DSA drivers to report the interface mode being used
> on these ports so that we can select a maximum speed appropriate for
> the interface mode that hardware may have configured for the port.
> 
> This is especially important with the conversion of DSA drivers to
> phylink_pcs, as the PCS code only gets called if we are using
> phylink for the port.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>

Reviewed-by: Marek Behún <kabel@kernel.org>

So this is the one that may break other drivers?

Marek

  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-01 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-29 12:49 [PATCH RFC net-next 0/6] net: dsa: always use phylink Russell King (Oracle)
2022-06-29 12:51 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 1/6] net: dsa: add support for retrieving the interface mode Russell King (Oracle)
2022-07-01 19:20   ` Marek Behún
2022-06-29 12:51 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 2/6] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: report the default interface mode for the port Russell King (Oracle)
2022-07-01 19:25   ` Marek Behún
2022-06-29 12:51 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 3/6] net: phylink: split out interface to caps translation Russell King (Oracle)
2022-07-01 19:27   ` Marek Behún
2022-06-29 12:51 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 4/6] net: phylink: add phylink_set_max_fixed_link() Russell King (Oracle)
2022-07-01 19:31   ` Marek Behún
2022-06-29 12:51 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 5/6] net: dsa: always use phylink for CPU and DSA ports Russell King (Oracle)
2022-07-01 19:34   ` Marek Behún [this message]
2022-07-02 20:27     ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-06-29 12:51 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 6/6] net: phylink: debug print Russell King (Oracle)

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