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Message-ID: <3c6ccef9-8654-49ba-88d9-d39e99d2b7b1@arinc9.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:16:02 +0300
From: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>
To: Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: DENG Qingfang <dqfext@...il.com>, Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
 Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, Vladimir Oltean
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 AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
 René van Dorst <opensource@...rst.com>,
 Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
 SkyLake Huang <SkyLake.Huang@...iatek.com>,
 Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
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 linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix EEE support for MT7531 and MT7988 SoC switch

On 19.03.2024 23:26, Daniel Golle wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 08:38:03PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>> I would argue that EEE advertisement on the PHY should be enabled by
>>> default.
>>
>> That is an open question at the moment. For some use cases, it can add
>> extra delay and jitter which can cause problems. I've heard people
>> doing PTP don't like EEE for example.
> 
> MediaTek consumer-grade hardware doesn't support PTP and hence that
> quite certainly won't ever be an issue with all switch ICs supported
> by the mt7530 driver.
> 
> I'd rather first change the (configuration) default in OpenWrt (which
> is arguable the way most people are using this hardware), also because
> that will be more visible/obvious for users. Or even just make EEE
> configurable in the LuCI web-UI as a first step so users start playing
> with it.
> 
> After all, I also have a hard time imagining that MediaTek disabled
> EEE in their downstream driver for no reason:
> 
> https://git01.mediatek.com/plugins/gitiles/openwrt/feeds/mtk-openwrt-feeds/+/24091177a18ba7f2dd8d928a8f5b27b14df46b16

Are you saying this to indicate that we shouldn't remove that from
mediatek-ge? If so, I've already explained that there'd be no practical
change in removing it as both MT7530 and MT7531 switches enable EEE
advertisement after mediatek-ge.

Arınç

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