netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 0/8] Let phylink manage in-band AN for the PHY

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Message-ID: <3acb1f69-8a9f-5793-6fcd-f7061992dd7a@seco.com>
Date:   Tue, 22 Nov 2022 13:09:10 -0500
From:   Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@...o.com>
To:     "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 0/8] Let phylink manage in-band AN for the PHY

On 11/22/22 12:59, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 11:10:03AM -0500, Sean Anderson wrote:
>> So maybe we should do (PHY_AN_INBAND_ON | PHY_AN_INBAND_OFF) in that
>> case. That said, RGMII in-band is not supported by phylink (yet).
> 
> I think people use it - why do you think it isn't supportable?

Sorry, I forgot that support had been added recently.

--Sean

> Why would it need to be any different from something like SGMII? One
> can implement a "phylink_pcs" that responds appropriately when in RGMII
> mode (which I believe is what others have done.)
> 
> Note that Marvell net drivers always register a PCS no matter what
> interface mode is being used - I believe the hardware has the ability
> to read the RGMII in-band and in that case it's just the same
> registers that one has to read to get the status as SGMII.
>