[EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 03/18] net: mvpp2: set the SMI PHY address when connecting to the PHY

Stefan Chulski stefanc at marvell.com
Wed Aug 23 06:30:47 PDT 2017


> In order to safely read/write the PHY, you need to hold the PHY mutex.
> Unless the hardware is very smart, please don't enable this. Let the phylib and
> the appropriate PHY driver do the work.
> 
>        Andrew

Hi Andrew,

This feature work only for Out-of-Band Auto-Negotiation in SGMII Mode.
Current GoP(MAC) code configure SGMII In-band Auto-Negotiation performed by the PCS layer
without PHY polling.

Regards,
Stefan. 



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