Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: honor "max-speed" for implicit PHYs on user ports

Andrew Lunn
2024-12-19T17:46:58Z

On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 06:38:01PM +0100, A. Sverdlin wrote:
> From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>
>
> If the PHYs on user ports are not specified explicitly, but a common
> user_mii_bus is being registered and scanned there is no way to limit
> Auto Negotiation options currently.

Please could you expand on this. This sounds like a reason you would
want to explicitly list the PHY on an MDIO bus so that you can use the
max-speed property in the PHY node.

Andrew