Re: [PATCH net-next v5 4/4] phy: aquantia: Determine rate adaptation support from registers

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 01:03:49PM -0500, Sean Anderson wrote:
> IMO if we really want to support this, the easier way would be to teach
> the phy driver how to change the rate adaptation mode. That way we could
> always advertise rate adaptation, but if someone came along and
> requested 10HD we could reconfigure the phy to support it. However, this
> was deemed too risky in the discussion for v1, since we don't really
> know how the firmware interacts with the registers.

I think I would prefer not exporting anything rate adaptation related to
user space, at least until things clean up a little and we're confident
that we don't need to radically change how it works.