If the network device supplies a supported interface bitmap, we can use
that during phylink's validation to simplify MAC drivers in two ways by
using the supported_interfaces bitmap to:
1. reject unsupported interfaces before calling into the MAC driver.
2. generate the set of all supported link modes across all supported
interfaces (used mainly for SFP, but also some 10G PHYs.)
Suggested-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a phy_interface_t bitmap so the MAC driver can specifiy which PHY
interface modes it supports.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a helper for setting 10Gigabit modes, so we have one central
place that sets all appropriate 10G modes for a driver.
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Joakim Zhang reports that Wake-on-Lan with the stmmac ethernet driver broke
when moving the incorrect handling of mac link state out of mac_config().
This reason this breaks is because the stmmac's WoL is handled by the MAC
rather than the PHY, and phylink doesn't cater for that scenario.
This patch adds the necessary phylink code to handle suspend/resume events
according to whether the MAC still needs a valid link or not. This is the
barest minimum for this support.
Reported-by: Joakim Zhang <qiangqing.zhang@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Joakim Zhang <qiangqing.zhang@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Joakim Zhang <qiangqing.zhang@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Define phylink_fwnode_phy_connect() to connect phy specified by
a fwnode to a phylink instance.
Signed-off-by: Calvin Johnson <calvin.johnson@oss.nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Certain platform does not support DT, so we make phylink_parse_mode() to
allow non-DT platform to use it to setup in-band AN advertising.
Signed-off-by: Ong Boon Leong <boon.leong.ong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
With the new addition of the USXGMII link partner ability constants we
can now introduce a phylink helper that decodes the USXGMII word and
populates the appropriate fields in the phylink_link_state structure
based on them.
Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix a kernel-doc warning for the pcs_config() function prototype:
../include/linux/phylink.h:406: warning: Excess function parameter 'permit_pause_to_mac' description in 'pcs_config'
Fixes: 7137e18f6f ("net: phylink: add struct phylink_pcs")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) Support 6Ghz band in ath11k driver, from Rajkumar Manoharan.
2) Support UDP segmentation in code TSO code, from Eric Dumazet.
3) Allow flashing different flash images in cxgb4 driver, from Vishal
Kulkarni.
4) Add drop frames counter and flow status to tc flower offloading,
from Po Liu.
5) Support n-tuple filters in cxgb4, from Vishal Kulkarni.
6) Various new indirect call avoidance, from Eric Dumazet and Brian
Vazquez.
7) Fix BPF verifier failures on 32-bit pointer arithmetic, from
Yonghong Song.
8) Support querying and setting hardware address of a port function via
devlink, use this in mlx5, from Parav Pandit.
9) Support hw ipsec offload on bonding slaves, from Jarod Wilson.
10) Switch qca8k driver over to phylink, from Jonathan McDowell.
11) In bpftool, show list of processes holding BPF FD references to
maps, programs, links, and btf objects. From Andrii Nakryiko.
12) Several conversions over to generic power management, from Vaibhav
Gupta.
13) Add support for SO_KEEPALIVE et al. to bpf_setsockopt(), from Dmitry
Yakunin.
14) Various https url conversions, from Alexander A. Klimov.
15) Timestamping and PHC support for mscc PHY driver, from Antoine
Tenart.
16) Support bpf iterating over tcp and udp sockets, from Yonghong Song.
17) Support 5GBASE-T i40e NICs, from Aleksandr Loktionov.
18) Add kTLS RX HW offload support to mlx5e, from Tariq Toukan.
19) Fix the ->ndo_start_xmit() return type to be netdev_tx_t in several
drivers. From Luc Van Oostenryck.
20) XDP support for xen-netfront, from Denis Kirjanov.
21) Support receive buffer autotuning in MPTCP, from Florian Westphal.
22) Support EF100 chip in sfc driver, from Edward Cree.
23) Add XDP support to mvpp2 driver, from Matteo Croce.
24) Support MPTCP in sock_diag, from Paolo Abeni.
25) Commonize UDP tunnel offloading code by creating udp_tunnel_nic
infrastructure, from Jakub Kicinski.
26) Several pci_ --> dma_ API conversions, from Christophe JAILLET.
27) Add FLOW_ACTION_POLICE support to mlxsw, from Ido Schimmel.
28) Add SK_LOOKUP bpf program type, from Jakub Sitnicki.
29) Refactor a lot of networking socket option handling code in order to
avoid set_fs() calls, from Christoph Hellwig.
30) Add rfc4884 support to icmp code, from Willem de Bruijn.
31) Support TBF offload in dpaa2-eth driver, from Ioana Ciornei.
32) Support XDP_REDIRECT in qede driver, from Alexander Lobakin.
33) Support PCI relaxed ordering in mlx5 driver, from Aya Levin.
34) Support TCP syncookies in MPTCP, from Flowian Westphal.
35) Fix several tricky cases of PMTU handling wrt. briding, from Stefano
Brivio.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2056 commits)
net: thunderx: initialize VF's mailbox mutex before first usage
usb: hso: remove bogus check for EINPROGRESS
usb: hso: no complaint about kmalloc failure
hso: fix bailout in error case of probe
ip_tunnel_core: Fix build for archs without _HAVE_ARCH_IPV6_CSUM
selftests/net: relax cpu affinity requirement in msg_zerocopy test
mptcp: be careful on subflow creation
selftests: rtnetlink: make kci_test_encap() return sub-test result
selftests: rtnetlink: correct the final return value for the test
net: dsa: sja1105: use detected device id instead of DT one on mismatch
tipc: set ub->ifindex for local ipv6 address
ipv6: add ipv6_dev_find()
net: openvswitch: silence suspicious RCU usage warning
Revert "vxlan: fix tos value before xmit"
ptp: only allow phase values lower than 1 period
farsync: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API
wan: wanxl: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API
hv_netvsc: do not use VF device if link is down
dpaa2-eth: Fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
net: macb: Properly handle phylink on at91sam9x
...
Add an interface to configure the advertisement for a clause 22 PCS
PHY, and set the AN enable flag in the BMCR appropriately.
Reviewed-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a way for MAC PCS to have private data while keeping independence
from struct phylink_config, which is used for the MAC itself. We need
this independence as we will have stand-alone code for PCS that is
independent of the MAC. Introduce struct phylink_pcs, which is
designed to be embedded in a driver private data structure.
This structure does not include a mdio_device as there are PCS
implementations such as the Marvell DSA and network drivers where this
is not necessary.
Reviewed-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
With PCS support, how we implement interface reconfiguration (or other
major reconfiguration) is not up to the job; we end up reconfiguring
the PCS for an interface change while the link could potentially be up.
In order to solve this, add two additional MAC methods for major
configuration, one to prepare for the change, and one to finish the
change.
This allows mvneta and mvpp2 to shutdown what they require prior to the
MAC and PCS configuration calls, and then restart as appropriate.
This impacts ksettings_set(), which now needs to identify whether the
change is a minor tweak to the advertisement masks or whether the
interface mode has changed, and call the appropriate function for that
update.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Re-code the pause in-band advertisement update in light of the addition
of PCS support, so that we perform the minimum required; only the PCS
configuration function needs to be called in this case, followed by the
request to trigger a restart of negotiation if the programmed
advertisement changed.
We need to change the pcs_config() signature to pass whether resolved
pause should be passed to the MAC for setups such as mvneta and mvpp2
where doing so overrides the MAC manual flow controls.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some fields were moved from struct phylink into phylink_config.
Update the kernel-doc markups for the config struct accordingly
Fixes: 5c05c1dbb1 ("net: phylink, dsa: eliminate phylink_fixed_state_cb()")
Reviewed-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/34970f447ff86415a6cef10a785fbef81c2819a7.1592895969.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add an interface for the phy_speed_(up|down) functions when a driver
makes use of phylink. These pass the call through to phylib when we
have a normal PHY attached (i.o.w., not a PHY on a SFP module.)
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Move the callback into the phylink_config structure, rather than
providing a callback to set this up.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a separate set of PCS operations, which MAC drivers can use to
couple phylink with their associated MAC PCS layer. The PCS
operations include:
- pcs_get_state() - reads the link up/down, resolved speed, duplex
and pause from the PCS.
- pcs_config() - configures the PCS for the specified mode, PHY
interface type, and setting the advertisement.
- pcs_an_restart() - restarts 802.3 in-band negotiation with the
link partner
- pcs_link_up() - informs the PCS that link has come up, and the
parameters of the link. Link parameters are used to program the
PCS for fixed speed and non-inband modes.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Rename the bland 'ops' member of struct phylink to be a more
descriptive 'mac_ops' - this is necessary as we're about to introduce
another set of operations.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Change phylink_mii_c22_pcs_set_advertisement() to take only the PHY
interface and advertisement mask, rather than the full phylink state.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Implement helpers for PCS accessed via the MII bus using 802.3 clause
45 cycles for 10GBASE-R. Only link up/down is supported, 10G full
duplex is assumed.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Implement helpers for PCS accessed via the MII bus using 802.3 clause
22 cycles, conforming to 802.3 clause 37 and Cisco SGMII specifications
for the advertisement word.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Propagate the resolved link parameters via the mac_link_up() call for
MACs that do not automatically track their PCS state. We propagate the
link parameters via function arguments so that inappropriate members
of struct phylink_link_state can't be accessed, and creating a new
structure just for this adds needless complexity to the API.
Tested-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Tested-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Tested-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Clarify the expected flow control settings operation in the phylink
documentation for each negotiation mode.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Resolve the fixed link flow control using the recently introduced
linkmode_resolve_pause() helper, which we use in
phylink_get_fixed_state() only when operating in full duplex mode.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some MAC PCS blocks are unable to provide interrupts when their status
changes. As we already have support in phylink for polling status, use
this to provide a hook for MACs to enable polling mode.
The patch idea was picked up from Russell King's suggestion on the macb
phylink patch thread here [0] but the implementation was changed.
Instead of introducing a new phylink_start_poll() function, which would
make the implementation cumbersome for common PHYLINK implementations
for multiple types of devices, like DSA, just add a boolean property to
the phylink_config structure, which is just as backwards-compatible.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/16/603
Suggested-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Rename the mac_link_state() method to mac_pcs_get_state() to make it
clear that it should be returning the MACs PCS current state, which
is used for inband negotiation rather than just reading back what the
MAC has been configured for. Update the documentation to explicitly
mention that this is for inband.
We drop the return value as well; most of phylink doesn't check the
return value and it is not clear what it should do on error - instead
arrange for state->link to be false.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Clarify the validate() behaviour in a few cases which weren't mentioned
in the documentation, but which are necessary for users to get the
correct behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
While reviewing the DPAA2 work, it has become apparent that we need
better documentation about which members of the phylink link state
structure are valid in the mac_config call. Improve this
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In the PHYLINK_DEV operation type, the PHYLINK infrastructure can work
without an attached net_device. For printing usecases, instead, a struct
device * should be passed to PHYLINK using the phylink_config structure.
Also, netif_carrier_* calls ar guarded by the presence of a valid
net_device. When using the PHYLINK_DEV operation type, we cannot check
link status using the netif_carrier_ok() API so instead, keep an
internal state of the MAC and call mac_link_{down,up} only when the link
changed.
Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The phylink_config structure will encapsulate a pointer to a struct
device and the operation type requested for this instance of PHYLINK.
This patch does not make any functional changes, it just transitions the
PHYLINK internals and all its users to the new API.
A pointer to a phylink_config structure will be passed to
phylink_create() instead of the net_device directly. Also, the same
phylink_config pointer will be passed back to all phylink_mac_ops
callbacks instead of the net_device. Using this mechanism, a PHYLINK
user can get the original net_device using a structure such as
'to_net_dev(config->dev)' or directly the structure containing the
phylink_config using a container_of call.
At the moment, only the PHYLINK_NETDEV is defined as a valid operation
type for PHYLINK. In this mode, a valid reference to a struct device
linked to the original net_device should be passed to PHYLINK through
the phylink_config structure.
This API changes is mainly driven by the necessity of adding a new
operation type in PHYLINK that disconnects the phy_device from the
net_device and also works when the net_device is lacking.
Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Tested-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
A detail for mac_config() had been missed in the documentation for the
method - it is expected that the method will update the MAC to the
settings, rather than completely reprogram the MAC on each call.
Update the documentation for this method for this detail.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Provide phylink_init_eee() to allow MAC drivers to initialise PHY EEE
from within the ethtool set_eee() method.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a helper for MAC drivers to use in their validate callback to deal
with 2500BaseX vs 1000BaseX modes, where the hardware supports both
but it is not possible to automatically select between them.
This helper defaults to 1000BaseX, as that is the 802.3 standard, and
will allow users to select 2500BaseX either by forcing the speed if
AN is disabled, or by changing the advertising mask if AN is enabled.
Disabling AN is not recommended as it is only the speed that we're
interested in controlling, not the duplex or pause mode parameters.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Provide a pointer to the SFP bus in struct net_device, so that the
ethtool module EEPROM methods can access the SFP directly, rather
than needing every user to provide a hook for it.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In preparation for having DSA transition entirely to PHYLINK, we need to pass a
PHY interface type to the mac_link_{up,down} callbacks because we may have to
make decisions on that (e.g: turn on/off RGMII interfaces etc.). We do not pass
an entire phylink_link_state because not all parameters (pause, duplex etc.) are
defined when the link is down, only link and interface are.
Update mvneta accordingly since it currently implements phylink_mac_ops.
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
phylink_get_fixed_state() currently consults an optional "link_gpio"
GPIO descriptor, expand this mechanism to allow specifying a custom
callback. This is necessary to support out of band link notifcation
(e.g: from an interrupt within a MMIO register).
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In order to let subsystems like DSA fully utilize PHYLINK, we need to be able
to communicate phy_device::flags from of_phy_{connect,attach} even when using
PHYLINK APIs.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Convert phylink to fwnode, switching phylink_create() from taking a
device_node to taking a fwnode_handle. This will allow other firmware
systems to take advantage of sfp/phylink support.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add kernel-doc documentation for phylink kernel APIs, and link it into
the networking kapi documentation under "Network device support".
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
phylink_init_eee() serves no purpose, remove it.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Since the handling of SGMII and 802.3z is now the same, combine the
MLO_AN_xxx constants into a single MLO_AN_INBAND, and use the PHY
interface mode to distinguish between Cisco SGMII and 802.3z.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add support for reading module EEPROMs through phylink.
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The link between the ethernet MAC and its PHY has become more complex
as the interface evolves. This is especially true with serdes links,
where the part of the PHY is effectively integrated into the MAC.
Serdes links can be connected to a variety of devices, including SFF
modules soldered down onto the board with the MAC, a SFP cage with
a hotpluggable SFP module which may contain a PHY or directly modulate
the serdes signals onto optical media with or without a PHY, or even
a classical PHY connection.
Moreover, the negotiation information on serdes links comes in two
varieties - SGMII mode, where the PHY provides its speed/duplex/flow
control information to the MAC, and 1000base-X mode where both ends
exchange their abilities and each resolve the link capabilities.
This means we need a more flexible means to support these arrangements,
particularly with the hotpluggable nature of SFP, where the PHY can
be attached or detached after the network device has been brought up.
Ethtool information can come from multiple sources:
- we may have a PHY operating in either SGMII or 1000base-X mode, in
which case we take ethtool/mii data directly from the PHY.
- we may have a optical SFP module without a PHY, with the MAC
operating in 1000base-X mode - the ethtool/mii data needs to come
from the MAC.
- we may have a copper SFP module with a PHY whic can't be accessed,
which means we need to take ethtool/mii data from the MAC.
Phylink aims to solve this by providing an intermediary between the
MAC and PHY, providing a safe way for PHYs to be hotplugged, and
allowing a SFP driver to reconfigure the serdes connection.
Phylink also takes over support of fixed link connections, where the
speed/duplex/flow control are fixed, but link status may be controlled
by a GPIO signal. By avoiding the fixed-phy implementation, phylink
can provide a faster response to link events: fixed-phy has to wait for
phylib to operate its state machine, which can take several seconds.
In comparison, phylink takes milliseconds.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
- remove sync status
- rework supported and advertisment handling
- add 1000base-x speed for fixed links
- use functionality exported from phy-core, reworking
__phylink_ethtool_ksettings_set for it
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>