Date:   Fri, 17 Mar 2023 21:02:42 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To:     Michael Sit Wei Hong <michael.wei.hong.sit@intel.com>
Cc:     Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com>,
        Jose Abreu <joabreu@synopsys.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
        Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>,
        Ong Boon Leong <boon.leong.ong@intel.com>,
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        Looi Hong Aun <hong.aun.looi@intel.com>,
        Voon Weifeng <weifeng.voon@intel.com>,
        Lai Peter Jun Ann <peter.jun.ann.lai@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 2/2] net: stmmac: move fixed-link support fixup
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 03:02:08PM +0800, Michael Sit Wei Hong wrote:
> xpcs_an_inband value is updated in the speed_mode_2500 function
> which turns on the xpcs_an_inband mode.
> 
> Moving the fixed-link fixup code to right before phylink setup to
> ensure no more fixup will affect the fixed-link mode configurations.

Please could you explain why this is correct, when you could simple
not set priv->plat->mdio_bus_data->xpcs_an_inband = true;
in intel_speed_mode_2500()?

This all seems like hacks, rather than a clean design.

     Andrew