Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> writes:
> It is called downshift. And we have support for it in the phylib core, > if the PHY has the needed vendor register. > > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.7-rc7/source/drivers/net/phy/phy-core.c#L341 > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.7-rc7/source/drivers/net/phy/phy.c#L95 Thanks for the references. > So in theory we could report: > > Link detected: yes (downshifted) > > Assuming your proposed API support a reason why it is up, not just a > reason why it is down? Michal Kubecek <mkube...@suse.cz> writes: > Perhaps we could use more general name than "link down reason", e.g. > "extended state", and it could be reported even if the link is still up All right, that makes sense to me. Let's make it extended state. Thanks!
