Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] phy: Add Open Alliance helpers for the PHY framework

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Fri Aug 09 2024 - 10:01:18 EST


On Fri, Aug 09, 2024 at 07:17:50AM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2024 at 03:54:06PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>
> > Please could you give a reference to the exact standard. I think this
> > is "Advanced diagnostic features for 1000BASE-T1 automotive Ethernet
> > PHYs TC12 - advanced PHY features" ?
> >
> > The standard seem open, so you could include a URL:
> >
> > https://opensig.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Advanced_PHY_features_for_automotive_Ethernet_v2.0_fin.pdf
>
> I already started to implement other diagnostic features supported by the
> TI DP83TG720 PHY. For example following can be implemented too:
> 6.3 Link quality – start-up time and link losses (LQ)
> 6.3.1 Link training time (LTT)
> 6.3.2 Local receiver time (LRT)
> 6.3.3 Remote receiver time (RRT)

These three are the time it takes for some action. Not really a
statistic in the normal netdev sense, since it does not count up. But
they are kind of statistics, so it is probably not abusing statistics
too much, so maybe O.K.

> 6.3.4 Link Failures and Losses (LFL)

This is a count, so does fit statistics.

> 6.3.5 Communication ready status (COM)

Similar to the BMSR link bit. Do it add anything useful?

> 6.4 Polarity Detection and Correction (POL)
> 6.4.1 Polarity Detection (DET)
> 6.4.2 Polarity Correction (COR)

Could these be mapped to ETH_TP_MDI* ?

Andrew