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Stas Sergeev
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Currently the PHY management type is selected by the MAC driver arbitrary. The decision is based on the presence of the "fixed-link" node and on a will of the driver's authors. This caused a regression recently, when mvneta driver suddenly started to use the in-band status for auto-negotiation on fixed links. It appears the auto-negotiation may not work when expected by the MAC driver. Sebastien Rannou explains: << Yes, I confirm that my HW does not generate an in-band status. AFAIK, it's a PHY that aggregates 4xSGMIIs to 1xQSGMII ; the MAC side of the PHY (with inband status) is connected to the switch through QSGMII, and in this context we are on the media side of the PHY. >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/10/206 This patch introduces the new string property 'managed' that allows the user to set the management type explicitly. The supported values are: "auto" - default. Uses either MDIO or nothing, depending on the presence of the fixed-link node "in-band-status" - use in-band status Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <[email protected]> CC: Rob Herring <[email protected]> CC: Pawel Moll <[email protected]> CC: Mark Rutland <[email protected]> CC: Ian Campbell <[email protected]> CC: Kumar Gala <[email protected]> CC: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]> CC: Grant Likely <[email protected]> CC: [email protected] CC: [email protected] CC: [email protected] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>