On 6/30/2020 7:28 AM, Russell King wrote:
> Comparing the ethtool output from phylink and non-phylink fixed-link
> setups shows that we have some differences:
>
> - The "auto-negotiation" fields are different; phylink reports these
> as "No", non-phylink reports these as "Yes" for the supported and
> advertising masks.
> - The link partner advertisement is set to the link speed with non-
> phylink, but phylink leaves this unset, causing all link partner
> fields to be omitted.
>
> The phylink ethtool output also disagrees with the software emulated
> PHY dump via the MII registers.
>
> Update the phylink fixed-link parsing code so that we better reflect
> the behaviour of the non-phylink code that this facility replaces, and
> bring the ethtool interface more into line with the report from via the
> MII interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+ker...@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com>
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Florian
