> I wonder how much risk there is to changing that, so we force the link
> down if phylink says the link should be down, otherwise we force the
> speed/duplex, disable AN, and allow the link to come up depending on
> the serdes status. It /sounds/ like something sane to do.
Hi Russell
I actually did this for mv88e6xxx in a patchset for ZII devel B. It
was determining link based on SFP LOS, which we know is unreliable. It
said there was link even when the SERDES had lost link.
I did it by making use of the fixed-link state call back, since it was
a quick and dirty patch. But it might make more sense for the MAC to
call phylink_mac_change() for change in PCS state? Or add a PCS
specific.
Andrew
