Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: pcs: xpcs: enable skip xPCS soft reset

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BIOS does configured the SerDes. The problem here is that all the
configurations done by BIOS are being reset at xpcs_create().

We would want user of the pcs-xpcs module (stmmac, sja1105) to have
control whether or not we need to perform to the soft reset in the
xpcs_create() call.

I understood Andrew's response as suggesting to introduce the ability for
xpcs_create() to make a BIOS call which would configure the SerDes after
xpcs_soft_reset().

Yes. Exactly. That is what ACPI is for, so we should use it for this.

     Andrew