Re: Question: pause mode disabled for marvell 88e151x phy

[Yunsheng Lin]

On 2019/1/24 6:41, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 11:28:19AM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
>> On 2018/12/17 22:36, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>> I'll try to do further diagnosis over Christmas in case I've missed
>>> something, but I suspect it may be one of those "weird behaviour" issues
>>> where the safest action is to disable pause mode as per my commit -
>>> which is far saner than having mismatched pause status on either end
>>> of a link.  However, given that Marvell specs are all NDA-only, it's
>>> very difficult to investigate beyond "this is the observed behaviour".
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any update on the further diagnosis?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've finally been able to do some further diagnosis (with a 'scope).
> It would appear that the network adapter had PHY polling enabled,
> which meant that it overwrote the PHYs advertisement register
> during negotiation.  I thought I'd checked that scenario, but alas
> clearing the PHY poll enable bit on its own doesn't stop it polling!
> 
> I'll send a revert for the commit shortly.

Great. Thanks for the further diagnosis.

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