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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2023 14:01:05 +0530
From: Raju Rangoju <Raju.Rangoju@....com>
To: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
 kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, Shyam-sundar.S-k@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] amd-xgbe: read STAT1 register twice to get correct
 value



On 9/16/2023 12:48 AM, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/15/23 07:41, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 09:49:44AM +0530, Raju Rangoju wrote:
>>> Link status is latched low, so read once to clear
>>> and then read again to get current state.
>>
>> I don't know about your PHY implementation, but within phylib and
>> Linux PHY drivers, this is considered wrong. You loose out on being
>> notified of the link going down and then back up again. Or up and then
>> down again.
>>
>> But since this is not a Linux PHY driver, you are free to do whatever
>> you want...
>>
>> Also, i believe it is latched, not latched low. So i think your commit
>> message is wrong. You should probably check with IEEE 802.3 clause 22.
> 
> Granted I have an old version of IEEE 802.3, but "Table 22-8 - Status 
> register bit definitions" has:
> 
> 1.2    Link Status    1 = link is up    0 = link is down    RO/LL
> 
> So latched low.

Thanks, Tom.

The following thread (found online) has the detailed info on the IEEE 
802.3 Standard that define the Link Status bit:

https://microchip.my.site.com/s/article/How-to-correctly-read-the-Ethernet-PHY-Link-Status-bit

Thanks,
Raju
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
>>
>>      Andrew
>>

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