Re: [PATCH net-next v3] net: phy: micrel: Add Fast link failure support for lan8842
From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Wed Sep 17 2025 - 08:54:49 EST
On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 12:46:30PM +0200, Horatiu Vultur wrote:
> Add support for fast link failure for lan8842, when this is enabled the
> PHY will detect link down immediately (~1ms). The disadvantage of this
> is that also small instability might be reported as link down.
> Therefore add this feature as a tunable configuration and the user will
> know when to enable or not. By default it is not enabled.
>
> Signed-off-by: Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
Andrew