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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: cristian.bercaru@freescale.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	madalin.bucur@freescale.com, shaohui.xie@freescale.com,
	shruti@freescale.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: vitesse: advertise PAUSE frame capabilities on Vitesse PHY drivers
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 10:08:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5168669.8QxsYLHynZ@lenovo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393076336.15717.97.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>

Le samedi 22 février 2014, 13:38:56 Ben Hutchings a écrit :
> On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 18:19 +0200, cristian.bercaru@freescale.com wrote:
> > From: Cristian Bercaru <cristian.bercaru@freescale.com>
> > 
> > Enable the advertisment of symmetric and asymmetric PAUSE frame
> > capabilities on all Vitesse PHY drivers.
> 
> I don't think this makes sense.  So far as I know, pause frame support
> depends only on the MAC, not the PHY.

Agreed.

> 
> I realise there are already other PHY drivers setting these flags, but
> why should they be added to every PHY driver individually when any
> autonegotiating PHY can advertise pause capability?

It looks like this might be abusing a PHY driver features to ensure that the 
initial value fed to phydev->supported will make us advertise the pause 
capabilities. This should be set by the Ethernet MAC driver prior to 
phy_start(), not by the PHY driver.

> 
> Ben.
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Cristian Bercaru <cristian.bercaru@freescale.com>
> > ---
> > 
> >  drivers/net/phy/vitesse.c | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
> >  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/vitesse.c b/drivers/net/phy/vitesse.c
> > index 14372c6..3124b31 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/phy/vitesse.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/phy/vitesse.c
> > @@ -227,7 +227,8 @@ static struct phy_driver vsc82xx_driver[] = {
> > 
> >  	.phy_id         = PHY_ID_VSC8234,
> >  	.name           = "Vitesse VSC8234",
> >  	.phy_id_mask    = 0x000ffff0,
> > 
> > -	.features       = PHY_GBIT_FEATURES,
> > +	.features       = PHY_GBIT_FEATURES |
> > +			SUPPORTED_Pause | SUPPORTED_Asym_Pause,
> > 
> >  	.flags          = PHY_HAS_INTERRUPT,
> >  	.config_init    = &vsc824x_config_init,
> >  	.config_aneg    = &vsc82x4_config_aneg,
> > 
> > @@ -239,7 +240,8 @@ static struct phy_driver vsc82xx_driver[] = {
> > 
> >  	.phy_id		= PHY_ID_VSC8244,
> >  	.name		= "Vitesse VSC8244",
> >  	.phy_id_mask	= 0x000fffc0,
> > 
> > -	.features	= PHY_GBIT_FEATURES,
> > +	.features       = PHY_GBIT_FEATURES |
> > +			SUPPORTED_Pause | SUPPORTED_Asym_Pause,
> > 
> >  	.flags		= PHY_HAS_INTERRUPT,
> >  	.config_init	= &vsc824x_config_init,
> >  	.config_aneg	= &vsc82x4_config_aneg,
> > 
> > @@ -251,7 +253,8 @@ static struct phy_driver vsc82xx_driver[] = {
> > 
> >  	.phy_id		= PHY_ID_VSC8514,
> >  	.name		= "Vitesse VSC8514",
> >  	.phy_id_mask	= 0x000ffff0,
> > 
> > -	.features	= PHY_GBIT_FEATURES,
> > +	.features       = PHY_GBIT_FEATURES |
> > +			SUPPORTED_Pause | SUPPORTED_Asym_Pause,
> > 
> >  	.flags		= PHY_HAS_INTERRUPT,
> >  	.config_init	= &vsc824x_config_init,
> >  	.config_aneg	= &vsc82x4_config_aneg,
> > 
> > @@ -263,7 +266,8 @@ static struct phy_driver vsc82xx_driver[] = {
> > 
> >  	.phy_id         = PHY_ID_VSC8574,
> >  	.name           = "Vitesse VSC8574",
> >  	.phy_id_mask    = 0x000ffff0,
> > 
> > -	.features       = PHY_GBIT_FEATURES,
> > +	.features       = PHY_GBIT_FEATURES |
> > +			SUPPORTED_Pause | SUPPORTED_Asym_Pause,
> > 
> >  	.flags          = PHY_HAS_INTERRUPT,
> >  	.config_init    = &vsc824x_config_init,
> >  	.config_aneg    = &vsc82x4_config_aneg,
> > 
> > @@ -275,7 +279,8 @@ static struct phy_driver vsc82xx_driver[] = {
> > 
> >  	.phy_id         = PHY_ID_VSC8662,
> >  	.name           = "Vitesse VSC8662",
> >  	.phy_id_mask    = 0x000ffff0,
> > 
> > -	.features       = PHY_GBIT_FEATURES,
> > +	.features       = PHY_GBIT_FEATURES |
> > +			SUPPORTED_Pause | SUPPORTED_Asym_Pause,
> > 
> >  	.flags          = PHY_HAS_INTERRUPT,
> >  	.config_init    = &vsc824x_config_init,
> >  	.config_aneg    = &vsc82x4_config_aneg,
> > 
> > @@ -288,7 +293,8 @@ static struct phy_driver vsc82xx_driver[] = {
> > 
> >  	.phy_id		= PHY_ID_VSC8221,
> >  	.phy_id_mask	= 0x000ffff0,
> >  	.name		= "Vitesse VSC8221",
> > 
> > -	.features	= PHY_GBIT_FEATURES,
> > +	.features       = PHY_GBIT_FEATURES |
> > +			SUPPORTED_Pause | SUPPORTED_Asym_Pause,
> > 
> >  	.flags		= PHY_HAS_INTERRUPT,
> >  	.config_init	= &vsc8221_config_init,
> >  	.config_aneg	= &genphy_config_aneg,
> > 
> > @@ -301,7 +307,8 @@ static struct phy_driver vsc82xx_driver[] = {
> > 
> >  	.phy_id		= PHY_ID_VSC8211,
> >  	.phy_id_mask	= 0x000ffff0,
> >  	.name		= "Vitesse VSC8211",
> > 
> > -	.features	= PHY_GBIT_FEATURES,
> > +	.features       = PHY_GBIT_FEATURES |
> > +			SUPPORTED_Pause | SUPPORTED_Asym_Pause,
> > 
> >  	.flags		= PHY_HAS_INTERRUPT,
> >  	.config_init	= &vsc8221_config_init,
> >  	.config_aneg	= &genphy_config_aneg,

-- 
Florian

      reply	other threads:[~2014-02-22 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-21 16:19 [PATCH] net: phy: vitesse: advertise PAUSE frame capabilities on Vitesse PHY drivers cristian.bercaru
2014-02-22 13:38 ` Ben Hutchings
2014-02-22 18:08   ` Florian Fainelli [this message]

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