netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC v2 3/3] net: phy: allow EEE with SGMII interface modes

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Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:00:19 +0100
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 3/3] net: phy: allow EEE with SGMII interface modes

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 09:47:31AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 03/27/2017 02:59 AM, Russell King wrote:
> > As EEE is able to work in SGMII mode as well, add it to the list of
> > permissable EEE modes that phy_init_eee() will accept.  This is
> > necessary so that EEE can work with an 88E1512 connected in SGMII mode.
> 
> As you mention in your cover letter, we should probably reverse this
> test and make it reject modes where EEE has no chance of being supported
> at all.

Want me to re-spin?  Any thought on which interface modes we should
explicitly exclude?

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