netdev - [RFC PATCH 0/2] convert gianfar to phylink

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Date:   Tue, 23 Jul 2019 22:17:00 +0700
From:   Arseny Solokha <asolokha@...kras.ru>
To:     Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>,
        Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Arseny Solokha <asolokha@...kras.ru>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/2] convert gianfar to phylink

The first patch in the series (almost) converts gianfar to phylink API. The
incentive behind this effort was to get proper support for 1000Base-X and
SGMII SFP modules.

There are some usages of the older phylib left, as serdes have to be
configured and its parameters queried via a TBI interface, and I've failed
to find a reasonably easy way to do it with phylink without much surgery.
It's the first reason for RFC here. However, usage of the older API only
covers two special cases of underlying hardware management and is not
involved in link and SFP management directly.

The conversion was tested with various 1000Base-X connected optical modules
and SGMII-connected copper ones.

The second patch deals with an issue in the phylink proper which only
manifests when bringing up or shutting down a network interface with SGMII
SFP module connected, which yields in calling phy_start() or phy_stop()
twice in a row for such modules. It doesn't look like a proper fix to me,
though, thus the second reason for RFC.

Arseny Solokha (2):
  gianfar: convert to phylink
  net: phylink: don't start and stop SGMII PHYs in SFP modules twice

 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/Kconfig        |   2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c      | 409 +++++++++---------
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h      |  26 +-
 .../net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c  |  79 ++--
 drivers/net/phy/phylink.c                     |   6 +-
 5 files changed, 254 insertions(+), 268 deletions(-)

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