netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: phy: add and use phy_check

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Message-ID: <20200319130429.GC24972@lunn.ch>
Date:   Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:04:29 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: phy: add and use phy_check_downshift

> The only time that this helps is if PHY drivers implement reading a
> vendor register to report the actual link speed, and the PHY specific
> driver is used.

So maybe we either need to implement this reading of the vendor
register as a driver op, or we have a flag indicating the driver is
returning the real speed, not the negotiated speed?

	   Andrew