netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH] net: phy: aquantia: add AQR111 and AQR111B0 PHY ID

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Message-ID: <233cd45b-28d5-477d-a193-8273684953aa@lunn.ch>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:09:57 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>
Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	"Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>,
	Robert Marko <robimarko@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] net: phy: aquantia: add AQR111 and AQR111B0 PHY
 ID

On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 02:35:51PM +0100, Christian Marangi wrote:
> Add Aquantia AQR111 and AQR111B0 PHY ID. These PHY advertise 10G speed
> but actually supports up to 5G speed, hence some manual fixup is needed.

Any chance this is a "golden screwdriver" situation? The chip really
can do 10G, but the firmware is supposed to limit it to 5G? This is
just a firmware "bug"?

     Andrew