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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>
To: Hariprasad Kelam <hkelam@marvell•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	kuba@kernel•org, davem@davemloft•net, sgoutham@marvell•com,
	lcherian@marvell•com, gakula@marvell•com, jerinj@marvell•com,
	sbhatta@marvell•com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 2/8] octeontx2-pf: Add ethtool priv flag to control PAM4 on/off
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 15:27:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YFdX7HNaZXUjb37e@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210321120958.17531-3-hkelam@marvell.com>

On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 05:39:52PM +0530, Hariprasad Kelam wrote:
> From: Felix Manlunas <fmanlunas@marvell•com>
> 
> For PHYs that support changing modulation type (NRZ or PAM4), enable these
> commands:
> 
>         ethtool --set-priv-flags  ethX pam4 on
>         ethtool --set-priv-flags  ethX pam4 off    # means NRZ modulation
>         ethtool --show-priv-flags ethX

Why is this not derived from the link mode? How do other Vendors
support this in their high speed MAC/PHY combinations.

Please stop using priv flags like this. This is not a Marvell specific
problem. Any high speed MAC/PHY combination is going to need some way
to configure this. So please think about the best generic solution.

This combined with your DSA changes give me a bad feeling. It seems
like you are just trying to dump your SDK features into the kernel,
without properly integrating the features in a vendor neutral way.

	Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-21 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-21 12:09 [net-next PATCH 0/8] configuration support for switch headers & phy Hariprasad Kelam
2021-03-21 12:09 ` [net-next PATCH 1/8] octeontx2-af: Add new CGX_CMDs to set and get PHY modulation type Hariprasad Kelam
2021-03-21 12:09 ` [net-next PATCH 2/8] octeontx2-pf: Add ethtool priv flag to control PAM4 on/off Hariprasad Kelam
2021-03-21 14:27   ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2021-03-21 12:09 ` [net-next PATCH 3/8] octeontx2-af: Support for parsing pkts with switch headers Hariprasad Kelam
2021-03-21 12:09 ` [net-next PATCH 4/8] octeontx2-af: Do not allow VFs to overwrite PKIND config Hariprasad Kelam
2021-03-21 12:09 ` [net-next PATCH 5/8] octeontx2-af: Put CGX LMAC also in Higig2 mode Hariprasad Kelam
2021-03-21 12:09 ` [net-next PATCH 6/8] octeontx2-pf: Support to enable EDSA/Higig2 pkts parsing Hariprasad Kelam
2021-03-21 12:09 ` [net-next PATCH 7/8] octeontx2-af: Add flow steering support for FDSA tag Hariprasad Kelam
2021-03-21 12:09 ` [net-next PATCH 8/8] octeontx2-pf: Add ntuple filter support for FDSA Hariprasad Kelam
2021-03-21 14:15 ` [net-next PATCH 0/8] configuration support for switch headers & phy Andrew Lunn
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2021-03-23 18:59 [net-next PATCH 2/8] octeontx2-pf: Add ethtool priv flag to control PAM4 on/off Hariprasad Kelam

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