Re: [PATCH net v2] net: dpaa: fix mode setting

[Paolo Abeni]

On 7/17/26 2:05 PM, Sean Anderson wrote:
> On 7/17/26 07:11, Paolo Abeni wrote:
>> On 7/17/26 12:13 PM, Michael Walle wrote:
>>> I've seen that, but.. that was the actual change between v1 and v2
>>> as suggested by Sean. It does not depend on the actual link speed,
>>> but the maximum link speed. So it is not relevant if the link
>>> negotiates to a slower speed or not. At least that now matches the
>>> behavior prior to the phylink conversion. If that was working -
>>> that I can't tell you.
>>
>> I'm sorry, following all cross revision discussion is a bit hard here.
>>
>> I don't understand if the 'link never established' is specific of your
>> board, or it a constant with this driver. Could you please clarify?
> 
> I think we should set byte/nibble mode in link_up as well as mac_config. That
> should fix the problem where the link never comes up (possibly broken since
> the phylink conversion). I think it's unlikely that this config is supposed
> to match the phy interface speed and not the link speed, but you never know...
FTR, the above does not answer my question ;)

Still I think (mostly guess) bringing the mode initialization in both
link_up and mac_config should be safer (that is, I agree with the above
plan).

/P