netdev - Re: Micrel Phy - Is there a way to configure the Phy not to do 802.3x flow control?

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Message-ID: <56E1A55F.3090906@ti.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:48:31 -0500
From:	Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@...com>
To:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, <johan@...nel.org>,
	"open list:TI NETCP ETHERNET DRIVER" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Kwok, WingMan" <w-kwok2@...com>
Subject: Re: Micrel Phy - Is there a way to configure the Phy not to do 802.3x
 flow control?

On 03/03/2016 07:16 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 03/03/16 14:18, Murali Karicheri wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are using Micrel Phy in one of our board and wondering if we can force the
>> Phy to disable flow control at start. I have a 1G ethernet switch connected
>> to Phy and the phy always enable flow control. I would like to configure the
>> phy not to flow control. Is that possible and if yes, what should I do in the
>> my Ethernet driver to tell the Phy not to enable flow control?
> 
> The PHY is not doing flow control per-se, your pseudo Ethernet MAC in
> the switch is doing, along with the link partner advertising support for
> it. You would want to make sure that your PHY device interface (provided
> that you are using the PHY library) is not starting with Pause
> advertised, but it could be supported.

Understood that Phy is just advertise FC. The Micrel phy for 9031 advertise
by default FC supported. After negotiation, I see that Phylib provide the 
link status with parameter pause = 1, asym_pause = 1. How do I tell the Phy not
to advertise?

I call following sequence in the Ethernet driver.

of_phy_connect(x,y,hndlr,a,z);
phy_start()

Now in hndlr() I have pause = 1, asym_pause = 1, in phy_device ptr. How can 
I tell the phy not to advertise initially?

Murali
> 
> As Andrew indicated the proper way to do this is do to use ethtool if
> you need to this dynamically.
> 


-- 
Murali Karicheri
Linux Kernel, Keystone