Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: phy: adin: clear the diag clock and set LINKING_EN during autoneg

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Wed Oct 21 2020 - 10:13:45 EST


> The frame-generator is an interesting feature of the PHY, that's not
> useful for the current phylib; the PHY can send packages [like a
> signal generator], and then these can be looped back, or sent over the
> wire.

Many PHYs that that. I posted some patches to the list a few years ago
adding basic support for the Marvell PHY frame generator. They got
NACKed. The netlink API, and some of the infrastructure i added for
cable testing would make it possible to fix the issues that caused the
NACK.

> Having said this, I'll include some comments for these in a V2 of this patchset.

Thanks.

Andrew

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