> I'm aware of that problem. I have some experimental patches which add > PHY interface mode bitmaps to the MAC, PHY, and SFP module parsing > functions. I have stumbled on some problems though - it's going to be > another API change (and people are already whinging about the phylink > API changing "too quickly", were too quickly seems to be defined as > once in three years), and in some cases, DSA, it's extremely hard to > work out how to properly set such a bitmap due to DSA's layered > approach.
Hi Russell If DSAs layering is causing real problems, we could rip it out, and let the driver directly interact with phylink. I'm not opposed to that. Andrew