[PATCH RFC 00/10] net: phylink: improve PHY validation

["Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>]

Hi,

One of the issues which has concerned me about the rate matching
implenentation that we have is that phy_get_rate_matching() returns
whether rate matching will be used for a particular interface, and we
enquire only for one interface.

Aquantia PHYs can be programmed with the rate matching and interface
mode settings on a per-media speed basis using the per-speed vendor 1
global configuration registers.

Thus, it is possible for the PHY to be configured to use rate matching
for 10G, 5G, 2.5G with 10GBASE-R, and then SGMII for the remaining
speeds. Therefore, it clearly doesn't make sense to enquire about rate
matching for just one interface mode.

Also, PHYs that change their interfaces are handled sub-optimally, in
that we validate all the interface modes that the host supports, rather
than the interface modes that the PHY will use.

This patch series changes the way we validate PHYs, but in order to do
so, we need to know exactly which interface modes will be used by the
PHY. So that phylib can convey this information, we add
"possible_interfaces" to struct phy_device.

possible_interfaces is to be filled in by a phylib driver once the PHY
is configured (in other words in the PHYs .config_init method) with the
interface modes that it will switch between. This then allows users of
phylib to know which interface modes will be used by the PHY.

This allows us to solve both these issues: where possible_interfaces is
provided, we can validate which ethtool link modes can be supported by
looking at which interface modes that both the PHY and host support,
and request rate matching information for each mode.

This should improve the accuracy of the validation.

 drivers/net/phy/aquantia/aquantia.h      |   5 +
 drivers/net/phy/aquantia/aquantia_main.c |  76 +++++++++++-
 drivers/net/phy/bcm84881.c               |  12 ++
 drivers/net/phy/marvell10g.c             | 203 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c             |   2 +
 drivers/net/phy/phylink.c                | 177 +++++++++++++++++++--------
 include/linux/phy.h                      |   3 +
 7 files changed, 353 insertions(+), 125 deletions(-)

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