netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/10] Pause updates for phylib and phylink

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Message-Id: <20200216.194006.251898075240263496.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sun, 16 Feb 2020 19:40:06 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     linux@...linux.org.uk
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, hkallweit1@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/10] Pause updates for phylib and phylink

From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 15:48:39 +0000

> Currently, phylib resolves the speed and duplex settings, which MAC
> drivers use directly. phylib also extracts the "Pause" and "AsymPause"
> bits from the link partner's advertisement, and stores them in struct
> phy_device's pause and asym_pause members with no further processing.
> It is left up to each MAC driver to implement decoding for this
> information.
> 
> phylink converted drivers are able to take advantage of code therein
> which resolves the pause advertisements for the MAC driver, but this
> does nothing for unconverted drivers. It also does not allow us to
> make use of hardware-resolved pause states offered by several PHYs.
> 
> This series aims to address this by:
 ...
> This series has been build-tested against net-next; the boot tested
> patches are in my "phy" branch against v5.5 plus the queued phylink
> changes that were merged for 5.6.
> 
> The next series will introduce the ability for phylib drivers to
> provide hardware resolved pause enablement state.  These patches can
> be found in my "phy" branch.

Series applied to net-next, thank you.