Re: [PATCH] net: phy: phy_ethtool_ksettings_set: Allow any supported speed

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 03:17:08PM +0500, Nikita Yushchenko wrote:
> > > To get two such PHYs talk to each other, one of the two has to be manually configured as slave.
> > > (e.g. ethtool -s tsn0 master-slave forced-slave).
> > 
> > I don't see what that has to do with whether AN is enabled or not.
> > Forcing master/slave mode is normally independent of whether AN is
> > enabled.
> > 
> > There's four modes for it. MASTER_PREFERRED - this causes the PHY to
> > generate a seed that gives a higher chance that it will be chosen as
> > the master. SLAVE_PREFERRED - ditto but biased towards being a slace.
> > MASTER_FORCE and SLAVE_FORCE does what it says on the tin.
> > 
> > We may not be implementing this for clause 45 PHYs.
> 
> Right now, 'ethtool -s tsn0 master-slave forced-slave' causes a call to
> driver's ethtool set_link_ksettings method. Which does error out for me
> because at the call time, speed field is 2500.

Are you saying that the PHY starts in fixed-speed 2.5G mode?

What does ethtool tsn0 say after boot and the link has come up but
before any ethtool settings are changed?

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