netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: phy: improve pause handling

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Date:   Sat, 04 May 2019 00:48:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hkallweit1@...il.com
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: phy: improve pause handling

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 21:34:43 +0200

> When probing the phy device we set sym and asym pause in the "supported"
> bitmap (unless the PHY tells us otherwise). However we don't know yet
> whether the MAC supports pause. Simply copying phy->supported to
> phy->advertising will trigger advertising pause, and that's not
> what we want. Therefore add phy_advertise_supported() that copies all
> modes but doesn't touch the pause bits.
> 
> In phy_support_(a)sym_pause we shouldn't set any bits in the supported
> bitmap because we may set a bit the PHY intentionally disabled.
> Effective pause support should be the AND-combined PHY and MAC pause
> capabilities. If the MAC supports everything, then it's only relevant
> what the PHY supports. If MAC supports sym pause only, then we have to
> clear the asym bit in phydev->supported.
> Copy the pause flags only and don't touch the modes, because a driver
> may have intentionally removed a mode from phydev->advertising.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - removed patch 2 from the series

Applied.