On 03/10/2016 02:38 PM, Murali Karicheri wrote:
> On 03/10/2016 01:05 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> On 10/03/16 08:48, Murali Karicheri wrote:
>>> On 03/03/2016 07:16 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>>> On 03/03/16 14:18, Murali Karicheri wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> We are using Micrel Phy in one of our board and wondering if we can force
>>>>> the
>>>>> Phy to disable flow control at start. I have a 1G ethernet switch
>>>>> connected
>>>>> to Phy and the phy always enable flow control. I would like to configure
>>>>> the
>>>>> phy not to flow control. Is that possible and if yes, what should I do in
>>>>> the
>>>>> my Ethernet driver to tell the Phy not to enable flow control?
>>>>
>>>> The PHY is not doing flow control per-se, your pseudo Ethernet MAC in
>>>> the switch is doing, along with the link partner advertising support for
>>>> it. You would want to make sure that your PHY device interface (provided
>>>> that you are using the PHY library) is not starting with Pause
>>>> advertised, but it could be supported.
>>>
>>> Understood that Phy is just advertise FC. The Micrel phy for 9031 advertise
>>> by default FC supported. After negotiation, I see that Phylib provide the
>>> link status with parameter pause = 1, asym_pause = 1. How do I tell the Phy
>>> not
>>> to advertise?
>>>
>>> I call following sequence in the Ethernet driver.
>>>
>>> of_phy_connect(x,y,hndlr,a,z);
>>
>> Here you should be able to change phydev->advertising and
>> phydev->supported to mask the ADVERTISED_Pause | ADVERTISED_AsymPause
>> bits and have phy_start() restart with that which should disable pause
>> and asym_pause as seen by your adjust_link handler.
>>
> Ok. Good point. I will try this. Thanks for your suggestion.
>
I made following changes. The phylib still report flow control enabled to
the driver. Some bug in the phylib/phydev?
+
+ printk("slave->phy->supported %x, slave->phy->advertising %x\n",
+ slave->phy->supported, slave->phy->advertising);
+ slave->phy->supported &=
+ ~(SUPPORTED_Pause | SUPPORTED_Asym_Pause);
+ slave->phy->advertising = slave->phy->supported;
+ printk("slave->phy->supported %x, slave->phy->advertising %x\n",
+ slave->phy->supported, slave->phy->advertising);
phy_start(slave->phy);
+ printk("slave->phy->supported %x, slave->phy->advertising %x\n",
+ slave->phy->supported, slave->phy->advertising);
phy_read_status(slave->phy);
[ 10.757001] slave->phy->supported 22ff, slave->phy->advertising 22ff
[ 10.763354] slave->phy->supported 2ff, slave->phy->advertising 2ff
[ 10.769552] slave->phy->supported 2ff, slave->phy->advertising 2ff
[ 10.776045] netcp-1.0 2620110.netcp eth0: Link is Down
udhcpc (v1.23.1) started
Sending discover...
Sending discover...
[ 14.757280] netcp-1.0 2620110.netcp eth0: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow
control rx/tx
Sending discover...
Sending select for 158.218.103.170...
Lease of 158.218.103.170 obtained, lease time 28800
/etc/udhcpc.d/50default: Adding DNS 192.0.2.2
/etc/udhcpc.d/50default: Adding DNS 192.0.2.3
> Murali
>>> phy_start()
>>>
>>> Now in hndlr() I have pause = 1, asym_pause = 1, in phy_device ptr. How can
>>> I tell the phy not to advertise initially?
>
>
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Murali Karicheri
Linux Kernel, Keystone
