From 1511ed0a0167f523a84b4e727372a5d2ce1b6c2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vladimir Oltean Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 03:34:11 +0200 Subject: net: phylink: add support for polling MAC PCS Some MAC PCS blocks are unable to provide interrupts when their status changes. As we already have support in phylink for polling status, use this to provide a hook for MACs to enable polling mode. The patch idea was picked up from Russell King's suggestion on the macb phylink patch thread here [0] but the implementation was changed. Instead of introducing a new phylink_start_poll() function, which would make the implementation cumbersome for common PHYLINK implementations for multiple types of devices, like DSA, just add a boolean property to the phylink_config structure, which is just as backwards-compatible. https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/16/603 Suggested-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/sfp-phylink.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/networking') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/sfp-phylink.rst b/Documentation/networking/sfp-phylink.rst index a5e00a159d21..d753a309f9d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/sfp-phylink.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/sfp-phylink.rst @@ -251,7 +251,8 @@ this documentation. phylink_mac_change(priv->phylink, link_is_up); where ``link_is_up`` is true if the link is currently up or false - otherwise. + otherwise. If a MAC is unable to provide these interrupts, then + it should set ``priv->phylink_config.pcs_poll = true;`` in step 9. 11. Verify that the driver does not call:: -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b