On 11.01.2021 14:38, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 1/11/21 2:26 PM, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> [...]
> 
>> LGTM. When having a brief look at the driver I stumbled across two things:
>>
>> 1. Do MAC/PHY support any pause mode? Then a call to
>>     phy_support_(a)sym_pause() would be missing.
> 
> https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/KSZ8851-16MLL-Single-Port-Ethernet-MAC-Controller-with-8-Bit-or-16-Bit-Non-PCI-Interface-DS00002357B.pdf
> page 64
> 
> https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/268/ksz8851-16mll_ds-776208.pdf
> page 65
> 
> The later is more complete.
> 
> Apparently it does support pause.
> 
>> 2. Don't have the datasheet, but IRQ_LCI seems to be the link change
>>     interrupt. So far it's ignored by the driver. You could configure
>>     it and use phy_mac_interrupt() to operate the internal PHY in
>>     interrupt mode.
> 
> That's only for link state change, shouldn't the PHY interrupt trigger on 
> other things as well ?

No, it's sufficient if the interrupt can signal link state change.
In r8169 I have exactly that case.

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