From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 15:48:47 +0200
> Certain PHY's have issues when operating in GBit slave mode and can > be forced to master mode. Examples are RTL8211C, also the Micrel PHY > driver has a DT setting to force master mode. > If two such chips are link partners the autonegotiation will fail. > Standard defines a self-clearing on read, latched-high bit to > indicate this error. Check this bit to inform the user. > > Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> > --- > v2: > - Use different error messages depending on whether local PHY uses > manual master/slave configuration. Applied, thank you.
