Hi Andrew, First of all, great work! As your cable diagnostic patches are in net-next now and can be used as base for the follow-up discussion.
Do you already have ethtool patches somewhere? :=) Can you please give a link for testing? I continue to work on TJA11xx PHY and need to export some additional cable diagnostic/link stability information: Signal Quality Index (SQI). The PHY data sheet describes it as following [1]: ================================================================================ 6.10.3 Link stability The signal-to-noise ratio is the parameter used to estimate link stability. The PMA Receive function monitors the signal-to-noise ratio continuously. Once the signal-to-noise ratio falls below a configurable threshold (SQI_FAILLIMIT), the link status is set to FAIL and communication is interrupted. The TJA1100 allows for adjusting the sensitivity of the PMA Receive function by configuring this threshold. The microcontroller can always check the current value of the signal-to-noise ratio via the SMI, allowing it to track a possible degradation in link stability. ================================================================================ Since this functionality is present at least on TJA11xx PHYs and mandatory according to Open Alliance[2], I hope this functionality is present on other 100/1000Base-T1 PHYs. So may be some common abstraction is possible. What would be the best place to provide it for the user space? According to the [2] SQI, is the part of Dynamic Channel Quality (DCQ) together with Mean Square Error (MSE) and Peak MSE value (pMSE). [1] https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/TJA1100.pdf [2] http://www.opensig.org/download/document/218/Advanced_PHY_features_for_automotive_Ethernet_V1.0.pdf http://www.opensig.org/download/document/225/Open_Alliance_100BASE-T1_PMA_Test_Suite_v1.0-dec.pdf -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |
