netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: phy: broadcom: set features explicitly for BCM54616S

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Date:   Tue, 30 Jul 2019 08:00:24 +0200
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     Tao Ren <taoren@...com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Arun Parameswaran <arun.parameswaran@...adcom.com>,
        Justin Chen <justinpopo6@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>,
        "openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org" <openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: phy: broadcom: set features explicitly
 for BCM54616S

On 30.07.2019 07:05, Tao Ren wrote:
> On 7/29/19 8:35 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 05:25:32PM -0700, Tao Ren wrote:
>>> BCM54616S feature "PHY_GBIT_FEATURES" was removed by commit dcdecdcfe1fc
>>> ("net: phy: switch drivers to use dynamic feature detection"). As dynamic
>>> feature detection doesn't work when BCM54616S is working in RGMII-Fiber
>>> mode (different sets of MII Control/Status registers being used), let's
>>> set "PHY_GBIT_FEATURES" for BCM54616S explicitly.
>>
>> Hi Tao
>>
>> What exactly does it get wrong?
>>
>>      Thanks
>> 	Andrew
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> BCM54616S is set to RGMII-Fiber (1000Base-X) mode on my platform, and none of the features (1000BaseT/100BaseT/10BaseT) can be detected by genphy_read_abilities(), because the PHY only reports 1000BaseX_Full|Half ability in this mode.
> 
Are you going to use the PHY in copper or fibre mode?
In case you use fibre mode, why do you need the copper modes set as supported?
Or does the PHY just start in fibre mode and you want to switch it to copper mode?

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tao
> 
Heiner