netdev - Re: genphy_read_status() vs. 1000bT Pause capability

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Message-ID: <1490678341.3177.103.camel@kernel.crashing.org>
Date:   Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:19:01 +1100
From:   Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: genphy_read_status() vs. 1000bT Pause capability

On Tue, 2017-03-28 at 16:17 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Hence my question ... how "standard" is the re-use of the LPA bits
> for these alternate meanings in 1000bT and should we update genphy
> to perform that decoding ?

And btw, I'm happy to provide patches if we agree on the approach :-)

Cheers,
Ben.