[PATCH net-next v3 04/10] net: sparx5: add port module support

[Steen Hegelund]

Hi Russell,

Thanks for your comments,

On Mon, 2021-06-07 at 14:12 +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 02:46:44PM +0200, Steen Hegelund wrote:
> > Hi Russell,
> > 
> > Thanks for your comments.
> > 
> > On Mon, 2021-06-07 at 10:21 +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > > It looks to me like the phylink code in your patch series is based on
> > > an older version of phylink and hasn't been updated for the split PCS
> > > support - you seem to be munging the PCS parts in with the MAC
> > > callbacks. If so, please update to the modern way of dealing with this.
> > > 
> > > If that isn't the case, please explain why you are not using the split
> > > PCS support.
> > 
> > I need to be able to let the user set the speed to get the link up.
> > 
> > So far I have only been able to get the user configured speeds via the mac_ops, but if this is
> > also
> > possible via the pcs_ops, there should not anything preventing me from using these ops instead.
> > 
> > Will the pcs_ops also support this?
> 
> I really don't understand what you're saying here, so I can't answer.
> 
> What exactly do you mean "user configured speeds" ? Please give
> examples of exactly what you're wanting to do.

I have added an example to the response in the other email thread.

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Steen

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