Re: [PATCH net] net: bcmgenet: Fix EEE implementation

From: Russell King (Oracle)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2023 - 18:02:58 EST


On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 02:43:47PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> We had a number of short comings:
>
> - EEE must be re-evaluated whenever the state machine detects a link
> change as wight be switching from a link partner with EEE
> enabled/disabled
>
> - tx_lpi_enabled controls whether EEE should be enabled/disabled for the
> transmit path, which applies to the TBUF block
>
> - We do not need to forcibly enable EEE upon system resume, as the PHY
> state machine will trigger a link event that will do that, too
>
> Fixes: 6ef398ea60d9 ("net: bcmgenet: add EEE support")
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> netdev maintainers, please do not apply without Andrew, Russell and
> Oleksij reviewing first since this relates to the on-going EEE rework
> from Andrew.

Hi Florian,

Please could you include some information on the UMAC_EEE_CTRL EEE_EN
bit - is this like the main switch for EEE which needs to be set
along with the bits in the tbuf register for the transmit side to
signal LPI?

Thanks.

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