Re: [PATCH v2 13/15] net: phy: adin: configure downshift on config_init

[Andrew Lunn]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 09:38:40PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> On 08.08.2019 14:30, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:
> > Down-speed auto-negotiation may not always be enabled, in which case the
> > PHY won't down-shift to 100 or 10 during auto-negotiation.
> > 
> > This change enables downshift and configures the number of retries to
> > default 8 (maximum supported value).
> > 
> > The change has been adapted from the Marvell PHY driver.
> > 
> Instead of a fixed downshift setting (like in the Marvell driver) you
> may consider to implement the ethtool phy-tunable ETHTOOL_PHY_DOWNSHIFT.

Hi Alexandru

Upps, sorry, my bad.

I looked at marvell_set_downshift(), and assumed it was connected to
the phy-tunable. I have patches somewhere which does that. But they
have not made it into mainline yet.

> See the Aquantia PHY driver for an example.

Yes, that does have all the tunable stuff.

     Andrew