On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 14:08, Russell King - ARM Linux admin <li...@armlinux.org.uk> wrote: >
[snip] > > So, I ask again, what practical use and benefit does restarting the > configuration exchange on a SGMII or USXGMII link have? Give me a real > life use case where there's a problem with a link that this can solve. > You are pushing the discussion in an area that to me is pretty insignificant, and where I did _not_ want to go. I said: > This is > probably OK, I can't come up with a situation where it might be useful for the > MAC PCS to clear its cache of link state and ask for a new tx_config_reg. So > remove this code. I was going to remove this code in the first place, it's just that you didn't like the justification in the initial commit message. Fine. So I asked you if this new commit message is OK. You said: > This is going over the top So let's cut this short: we agree about everything now, hardware behavior and software behavior. Could you edit my commit message in a way that you agree with, and paste it here so that I could include it in v2? Thanks, -Vladimir