> 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