Hi Russell,

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 03:53:07PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:33:43AM +0100, Antoine Tenart wrote:

quoted

The PHY mode 10GKR can use in-band negotiation. This patches allows this
mode to be used with MLO_AN_INBAND in phylink.

Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/phy/phylink.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
index 51a011a349fe..7224b005f0dd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c

@@ -768,7 +768,8 @@ int phylink_of_phy_connect(struct phylink *pl, struct device_node *dn,
 	/* Fixed links and 802.3z are handled without needing a PHY */
 	if (pl->link_an_mode == MLO_AN_FIXED ||
 	    (pl->link_an_mode == MLO_AN_INBAND &&
-	     phy_interface_mode_is_8023z(pl->link_interface)))
+	     (phy_interface_mode_is_8023z(pl->link_interface) ||
+	      pl->link_interface == PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_10GKR)))

There is no inband negotiation like there is with 802.3z or SGMII,
so this makes no sense.

Oh, that's what I feared. I read some docs but probably will need more
:)

Anyway, the reason to use in-band negotiation was also to avoid using
fixed-link. It would work but always report the link is up, which for
the user isn't a great experience as we have a way to detect this.

What would you suggest to achieve this in a reasonable way?

Thanks,
Antoine

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Antoine T?nart, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com