Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/9] net: sunhme: Just restart autonegotiation if we can't bring the link up

From: Simon Horman
Date: Wed Mar 15 2023 - 04:20:42 EST


On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 08:36:05PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
> If we've tried regular autonegotiation and forcing the link mode, just
> restart autonegotiation instead of reinitializing the whole NIC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <seanga2@xxxxxxxxx>

Hi Sean,

This patch looks fine to me, as do patches 3 - 4, which is as far as I have
got with my review.

I do, however, have a general question regarding most of the patches in this
series: to what extent have they been tested on HW?

And my follow-up question is: to what extent should we consider removing
support for hardware that isn't being tested and therefore has/will likely
have become broken break at some point? Quattro, the subject of a latter
patch in this series, seems to be a case in point.