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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 09:42:41 +0100 From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com> To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: phy: aquantia: report remote capabilities if link partner is Aquantia PHY On 24.03.2019 02:01, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > > On 3/23/2019 6:14 AM, Heiner Kallweit wrote: >> If both link partners are Aquantia PHY's then additional information is >> exchanged as part of the auto-negotiation. Report remote capabilities >> if link partner is Aquantia PHY. >> >> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com> > > Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> > > Petr is trying to introduce a link down reason, but it sounds like we > should also have have a way to enhance the link up with information like > the one you are providing here. It would also be nice if in the future, > ethtool could display additional vendor specific information when the > link is up. ethtool over netlink should facilitate that. > Interesting idea. Most likely the available information will be quite different, dependent on the vendor. So the PHY driver may have to expose a list of items, each with a name and type. > Thanks! > Heiner
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