[PATCH net-next v5 09/13] net: phylink: Use phy_caps_lookup for fixed-link configuration

[Maxime Chevallier]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:26:04 -0700
Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck at gmail.com> wrote:


> The general idea I had in mind for upstreaming the support for fbnic
> was to initially bring it up as a fixed-link setup using
> PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_INTERNAL as that is essentially what we have now
> and I can get rid of the extraneous 40G stuff that we aren't using.
> Then we pivot into enabling additional PHY interface modes and
> QSFP+/28 support in the kernel. Then I would add a mailbox based i2c
> and gpio to enable SFP/QSPF on fbnic. After that we could switch fbnic
> back to the inband setup with support for the higher speed interfaces.
> 
> One option I would be open to is to have me take on addressing the
> issue in net-next instead of net since I would need to sort it out to
> enable my patches anyway.

If that's OK for you and the proposed patch fixes your problem, I'd
still like for the patch to get in, as right now fixed links will
not work at all for >10G links.

Then we can get better linkmodes reporting for your usecase ?

Maxime