netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: dwmac-qcom-ethqos: Enable support for XGMAC

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Message-ID: <55914c2a-95d8-4c40-a3ea-dfa6b2aeb1dd@lunn.ch>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 03:51:47 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Sagar Cheluvegowda <quic_scheluve@...cinc.com>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>,
	Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
	Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel@...cinc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: dwmac-qcom-ethqos: Enable support for XGMAC

On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 06:08:10PM -0800, Sagar Cheluvegowda wrote:
> All Qualcomm platforms have only supported EMAC version 4 until
> now whereas in future we will also be supporting XGMAC version
> which has higher capabilities than its peer. As both has_gmac4
> and has_xgmac fields cannot co-exist, make sure to disable the
> former flag when has_xgmac  is enabled.

If you say they are mutually exclusive, how can it happen that both
are enabled?

To me, this feels like you are papering over a bug somewhere else.

	Andrew