[PATCH RFC] Providing a helper for PCS inband negotiation

[Vladimir Oltean]

Hello,

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 01:22:50PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> 1. Should 10GBASE-KR be included in the SGMII et.al. case in the code?
>    Any other interface modes that should be there? Obviously,
>    PHYLINK_PCS_NEG_NONE is not correct for 10GBASE-KR since it does use
>    inband AN. Does it make sense for the user to disable inband AN for
>    10GBASE-KR? If so, maybe it should be under the 1000base-X case.

What physical process (reference to IEEE 802.3 clause is fine) would be
controlled by the phylink_pcs_neg_mode() function for the so-called
10GBASE-KR phy-mode?