netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC russell-king 3/4] net: phy: marvell10g: change MACTYPE according to phydev->interface

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Message-ID: <20200812163016.GU1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:30:16 +0100
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Marek Behún <marek.behun@....cz>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
        Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>,
        Chris Healy <cphealy@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC russell-king 3/4] net: phy: marvell10g: change
 MACTYPE according to phydev->interface

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 06:28:17PM +0200, Marek Behún wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:22:32 +0100
> Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 06:13:33PM +0200, Marek Behún wrote:
> > > The MACTYPE is not being lost. But changing it requires Port
> > > Software Reset, which resets the link, so it cannot be done for
> > > example in read_status.  
> > 
> > Wouldn't the right place to configure it be in the config_init()
> > method - which is called once we have a MAC attaching to the PHY?
> > As I mentioned, if we had a way to pass the MAC interface supported
> > mask into phylib, config_init() could then use that to determine what
> > to do.
> > 
> 
> It is done from config_init. mv3310_power_up is called from
> mv3310_config_init.

I think it'll be best to resume this once we have saner weather.

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