From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Fainelli Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 3/3] net: phy: allow EEE with SGMII interface modes Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:42:57 -0700 Message-ID: <3bcc3380-6e59-06e3-9ebd-5450e89c90a2@gmail.com> References: <20170327095826.GA2310@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <5d3c3ce0-fabc-6b96-c7e9-c2e46ffe4d23@gmail.com> <20170327170019.GR7909@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <9f523664-9479-26ca-e3f7-95453ed03560@gmail.com> <20170327194747.GS7909@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <705b10f9-6a0c-3a35-ddff-04b75c6f80ec@gmail.com> <20170327201529.GT7909@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn To: Russell King - ARM Linux Return-path: Received: from mail-qk0-f196.google.com ([209.85.220.196]:34410 "EHLO mail-qk0-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752443AbdC0WnG (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:43:06 -0400 Received: by mail-qk0-f196.google.com with SMTP id 10so3757066qkh.1 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:43:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20170327201529.GT7909@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 03/27/2017 01:15 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > Here's the revised patch as requested. > > Thanks. > > 8<=== > From: Russell King > Subject: [PATCH] net: phy: allow EEE with any interface mode > > EEE is able to work in any PHY interface mode, there is nothing which > fundamentally restricts it to only a few modes. For example, EEE works > in SGMII mode with the Marvell 88E1512. > > Rather than just adding SGMII mode to the list, Florian suggests > removing the list of interface modes entirely: > > It actually sounds like we should just kill the check entirely, > it does not appear that any of the interface mode would not > fundamentally be able to support EEE, because the "lowest" mode > we support is MII, and even there it's quite possible to support > EEE. > > Signed-off-by: Russell King Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli I think David will require you to resubmit this as an entire patch series and without an RFC tag. Do you want to hold off a bit to get build coverage or go ahead and target net-next right away? Thanks! -- Florian