From: Shaohui Xie <shaohui....@nxp.com> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 19:27:06 +0800
> Gianfar does not support EEE, but it can connect to a PHY which supports > EEE and the PHY advertises EEE by default, and its link partner also > advertises EEE, so the PHY enters low power mode when traffic rate is low, > which causes packet loss if an application's traffic rate is low. This > patch provides .get_eee and .set_eee so that to disable the EEE > advertisement via ethtool if needed, other EEE features are not supported. > > Signed-off-by: Shaohui Xie <shaohui....@nxp.com> This is not the way to fix this. If the Gianfar MAC does not support EEE properly, then the gianfar driver should not create a situation where the PHY advertises EEE in the first place.
