netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] net: emac: fix and unify emac

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Message-ID: <20170605214333.GA12386@lunn.ch>
Date:   Mon, 5 Jun 2017 23:43:33 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@...glemail.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Ivan Mikhaylov <ivan@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] net: emac: fix and unify emac_mdio functions

On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 10:49:40PM +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> emac_mdio_read_link() was not copying the requested phy settings
> back into the emac driver's own phy api. This has caused a link
> speed mismatch issue for the AR8035 as the emac driver kept
> trying to connect with 10/100MBps on a 1GBit/s link.

Hi Christian

In the long run, you might want to remove the emac phy drivers. Linux
has PHYLIB drivers for all but the bcm5248.

       Andrew