[PATCH net-next 04/14] net: stmmac: remove PCS "mode" pause handling

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Wed Oct 15 13:48:30 PDT 2025


On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 03:20:17PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> Remove the "we always autoneg pause" forcing when the stmmac driver
> decides that a "PCS" is present, which blocks passing the ethtool
> pause calls to phylink when using SGMII mode.
> 
> This prevents the pause results being reported when a PHY is attached
> using SGMII mode, or the pause settings being changed in SGMII mode.
> There is no reason to prevent this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>

    Andrew



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