netdev - Re: [PATCH net v1 1/2] net: dsa: microchip: let phylink manage PHY EEE configuration on KSZ switches

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Message-ID: <aBB22NnNE4p6isiC@pengutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 08:51:04 +0200
From: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
	Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@...rochip.com>,
	"Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel@...gutronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v1 1/2] net: dsa: microchip: let phylink manage PHY
 EEE configuration on KSZ switches

On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 08:07:04PM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 06:51:19PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > +/**
> > > + * ksz_phylink_mac_disable_tx_lpi() - Dummy handler to disable TX LPI
> > > + * @config: phylink config structure
> > > + *
> > > + * For ports with integrated PHYs, LPI is managed internally by hardware.
> > 
> > Could you expand that.
> > 
> > Does it mean the hardware will look at the results of the autoneg and
> > disable/enable LPI depending on those results?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > I also assume this means it is not possible to force LPI on/off, independent
> > of autoneg?
> 
> Correct. set_eee call in this driver is filtering (tx_lpi == false) to
> reflect HW functionality.

I'll update this patch to include this information.

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