netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 04/10] net: sparx5: add port module support

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Message-ID: <20210607131231.GF22278@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Mon, 7 Jun 2021 14:12:31 +0100
From:   "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Steen Hegelund <steen.hegelund@...rochip.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Microchip Linux Driver Support <UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@....nxp.com>,
        Mark Einon <mark.einon@...il.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
        Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Bjarni Jonasson <bjarni.jonasson@...rochip.com>,
        Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen@...rochip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 04/10] net: sparx5: add port module support

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 02:46:44PM +0200, Steen Hegelund wrote:
> Hi Russell,
> 
> Thanks for your comments.
> 
> On Mon, 2021-06-07 at 10:21 +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > It looks to me like the phylink code in your patch series is based on
> > an older version of phylink and hasn't been updated for the split PCS
> > support - you seem to be munging the PCS parts in with the MAC
> > callbacks. If so, please update to the modern way of dealing with this.
> > 
> > If that isn't the case, please explain why you are not using the split
> > PCS support.
> 
> I need to be able to let the user set the speed to get the link up.
> 
> So far I have only been able to get the user configured speeds via the mac_ops, but if this is also
> possible via the pcs_ops, there should not anything preventing me from using these ops instead.
> 
> Will the pcs_ops also support this?

I really don't understand what you're saying here, so I can't answer.

What exactly do you mean "user configured speeds" ? Please give
examples of exactly what you're wanting to do.

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