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Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:11:40 +0200 (CEST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Joao.Pinto@...opsys.com, andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, hkallweit1@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: Do not check Link status when loopback is enabled From: Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 13:43:10 +0200 > While running stmmac selftests I found that in my 1G setup some tests > were failling when running with PHY loopback enabled. > > It looks like when loopback is enabled the PHY will report that Link is > down even though there is a valid connection. > > As in loopback mode the data will not be sent anywhere we can bypass the > logic of checking if Link is valid thus saving unecessary reads. > > Signed-off-by: Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com> Applied to net-next.
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