On Thu, 28 May 2020 15:48:05 +0100 Russell King - ARM Linux admin <li...@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 04:33:35PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > > below is the dts part for the two network interfaces. The switch to > > the outside has two ports, which correlate to the two internal ports. > > And the switch propagates the link state of the external ports to > > the internal ports. > > Okay, so this DTS hasn't been reviewed... that's from our partner, I'm just using it. Stripping it down isn't the point for my now. > This isn't correct - you are requesting that in-band status is used > (i.o.w. the in-band control word, see commit 4cba5c210365), but your > bug report wants to enable AN bypass because there is no in-band > control word. This seems to be rather contradictory. > > May I suggest you use a fixed-link here, which will not have any afaik fixed-link will always be up, and we want to have the link state from the switch external ports. > inband status, as there is no in-band control word being sent by > the switch? That is also the conventional way of handling switch > links. again, we want to propagte the external link state inside to all the internal nodes. So this will not work anymore with fixed-link. Thomas. -- SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH HRB 36809 (AG Nürnberg) Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer
