netdev - Re: Cutting the link on ndo_stop - phy_stop or phy

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Date:   Tue, 4 Jun 2019 19:25:46 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Cc:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "andrew@...n.ch" <andrew@...n.ch>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>
Subject: Re: Cutting the link on ndo_stop - phy_stop or phy_disconnect?

On 6/4/2019 2:36 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> Normally the PHY receives traffic, and passes it to the MAC which
> just ignores the signals it receives from the PHY, so no processing
> beyond the PHY receiving the traffic happens.
> 
> Ultimately, whether you want the PHY to stay linked or not linked
> is, imho, a policy that should be set by the administrator (consider
> where a system needs to become available quickly after boot vs a
> system where power saving is important.)  We don't, however, have
> a facility to specify that policy though.

Maybe that's what we need, something like:

ip link set dev eth0 phy [on|off|wake]

or whatever we deem appropriate such that people willing to maintain the
PHY on can do that.
-- 
Florian