linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] phy: phylink: Fix CuSFP issue in phylink

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Message-ID: <20201110102552.GZ1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 10 Nov 2020 10:25:53 +0000
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Bjarni Jonasson <bjarni.jonasson@...rochip.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        UNGLinuxDriver <UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phy: phylink: Fix CuSFP issue in phylink

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:06:42AM +0100, Bjarni Jonasson wrote:
> There is an issue with the current phylink driver and CuSFPs which
> results in a callback to the phylink validate function without any
> advertisement capabilities.  The workaround (in this changeset)
> is to assign capabilities if a 1000baseT SFP is identified.

How does this happen?  Which PHY is being used?

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