linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: phy: mediatek-ge: do not disable EEE advertisement

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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 06:08:18 -0700
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To: arinc.unal@...nc9.com, Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>,
 DENG Qingfang <dqfext@...il.com>, Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
 Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
 AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
 René van Dorst <opensource@...rst.com>,
 Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
 SkyLake Huang <SkyLake.Huang@...iatek.com>,
 Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc: Bartel Eerdekens <bartel.eerdekens@...stell8.be>,
 mithat.guner@...ont.com, erkin.bozoglu@...ont.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
 linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: phy: mediatek-ge: do not disable EEE
 advertisement

On 3/18/2024 12:46 AM, Arınç ÜNAL via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>
> 
> There's no need to disable Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) advertisement on
> the MT7530 and MT7531 switch PHYs. EEE works fine on MT7530 and MT7531
> switch PHYs. Remove the code where EEE advertisement is disabled.
> 
> This is a bugfix because there's a possible race condition where the
> mediatek-ge driver would kick in after the MT7530 DSA subdriver which would
> have EEE disabled until manually enabled.
> 
> Fixes: e40d2cca0189 ("net: phy: add MediaTek Gigabit Ethernet PHY driver")
> Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>

Could we get Sean to chime in, maybe there was a valid reason to disable 
EEE advertisement in the first place?
-- 
Florian