Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: enhance Maxlinear GPY loopback disable function

From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 12:20:43 +0000

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 09:16:46AM +0000, Liang Xu wrote:
> From: Michael Walle <[email-masked]>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2022 5:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: enhance Maxlinear GPY loopback disable function
> 
> This email was sent from outside of MaxLinear.
> 
> 
> Subject is missing the correct target, "net" in this case.
> 
> > GPY need 3 seconds to switch out of loopback mode.
> 
> What does that mean, what goes wrong with the current 100ms?
> Could you elaborate a bit more and update the commit message
> and the comment? Is this true for any GPY PHY supported by
> this driver?
> 
> The internal state machine need almost 3s to fully restore to original state when leaving the loopback mode.
> This is true for all models supported by this driver.
> I will update the commit message and fix the target.
> Thank you.

When you state that it takes almost 3 seconds to fully restore the
state, what are you basing that upon - what are you using to determine
that the state has been fully restored?

Thanks.

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