netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next 7/8] net: phy: Add Synopsys DesignWare XPCS MDIO module

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Date:   Tue, 9 Jun 2020 14:24:57 +0000
From:   Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@...opsys.com>,
        Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com" 
        <linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next 7/8] net: phy: Add Synopsys DesignWare XPCS MDIO
 module

From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Date: Jun/05/2020, 18:10:34 (UTC+00:00)

> This is incorrect - you should not mask the link partner's advertisement
> with our advertisement like this; consider the table in 802.3 for
> resolving the pause modes, where simply doing a bitwise-and operation
> between the two advertisements would severely restrict the resulting
> resolution to either symmetric pause or nothing at all.
> 
> You want to do this when you resolve the speed, but only _temporarily_
> in order to resolve the speed - you do not want to write back the
> result to state->lp_advertising.

Thanks for bringing this up. Indeed I believe I did this in order to 
resolve the speed, as you said.
 
> You may wish to fix that.

Added to the list of my pending fixes. Thanks!

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Thanks,
Jose Miguel Abreu