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Message-ID: <e74f35e2-d81c-7f86-a6b3-7cecce035ce9@bell.net> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 19:11:37 -0500 From: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@...l.net> To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> Cc: Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>, Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: net: phylink: dsa: mv88e6xxx: flaky link detection on switch ports with internal PHYs On 2019-01-22 5:36 p.m., Andrew Lunn wrote: > It does not need to. There are two options here: > > 1) The PHY has no interrupt. phylib will poll the PHY once per second > for link changes. > > 2) The PHY has in interrupt. Link changes will cause the interrupt to > fire, and the phylib will then read the current state. > > For PHYs embedded within a switch driver by mv88e6xxx interrupts > should always be used. I don't think option 2) is implemented. Didn't see any irq code in phy.c. If I remember correctly, one needs to use clause 45 accesses to get at the PHY registers in the 88E6341. Can you point me to the phylib code that does the polling? Thanks, Dave -- John David Anglin dave.anglin@...l.net
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