[PATCH CFT net-next 1/2] net: axienet: convert to phylink_pcs

Harini Katakam harinik at xilinx.com
Mon Jan 3 23:56:28 PST 2022


On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 1:55 PM Harini Katakam <harinik at xilinx.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Russell,
>
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 5:26 AM Russell King (Oracle)
> <linux at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 07:15:13AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > > On Thu, 16 Dec 2021 12:48:45 +0000 Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > > > Convert axienet to use the phylink_pcs layer, resulting in it no longer
> > > > being a legacy driver.
> > > >
> > > > One oddity in this driver is that lp->switch_x_sgmii controls whether
> > > > we support switching between SGMII and 1000baseX. However, when clear,
> > > > this also blocks updating the 1000baseX advertisement, which it
> > > > probably should not be doing. Nevertheless, this behaviour is preserved
> > > > but a comment is added.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
> > >
> > > drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet.h:479: warning: Function parameter or member 'pcs' not described in 'axienet_local'
> >
> > Fixed that and the sha1 issue you raised in patch 2. Since both are
> > "documentation" issues, I won't send out replacement patches until
> > I've heard they've been tested on hardware though.
>
> Thanks for the patches.
> Series looks good and we're testing at our end; will get back to you
> early next week.

Thanks Russell. I've tested AXI Ethernet and it works fine.

Regards,
Harini



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