Re: [PATCH net-next v4 00/23] net: add EEE support for KSZ9477 and AR8035 with i.MX6

[Andrew Lunn]

> SmartEEE will be probably a bit more challenging. If MAC do not
> advertise EEE support, SmartEEE can be enabled. But it would break PTP
> if SmartEEE is active. Except SmartEEE capable PHY implements own PTP
> support. In any case, user space will need extra information to
> identify potential issues.

If we have a MAC driver which does not implement the ethtool set_eee()
and get_eee() ops, and a dev->phydev with the SmartEEE flag set, we
could have net/ethtool/eee.c call direct into phylib.

As for PTP and EEE, maybe we want the core PTP code to try calling
get_eee() and at minimum issue a warning if it is enabled, if it
thinks MAC PTP is being used?

       Andrew