netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3] net: phy: broadcom: add 1000Base-X support for BCM54616S

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Date:   Sun, 4 Aug 2019 18:22:15 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>, Tao Ren <taoren@...com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Arun Parameswaran <arun.parameswaran@...adcom.com>,
        Justin Chen <justinpopo6@...il.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org" <openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] net: phy: broadcom: add 1000Base-X support
 for BCM54616S

> > Even if that were the case (patching phy_attach_direct to apply a
> > logical-or to dev_flags), it sounds fishy to me that the genphy code
> > is unable to determine that this PHY is running in 1000Base-X mode.
> > 
> > In my opinion it all boils down to this warning:
> > 
> > "PHY advertising (0,00000200,000062c0) more modes than genphy
> > supports, some modes not advertised".
> > 
> The genphy code deals with Clause 22 + Gigabit BaseT only.
> Question is whether you want aneg at all in 1000Base-X mode and
> what you want the config_aneg callback to do.
> There may be some inspiration in the Marvel PHY drivers.

As far as i know, you cannot actually advertise 1000Base-X. So we
probably should not be setting the bit in advertise, only having it in
supported?

	Andrew