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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] Improvements for RealTek 2.5G Ethernet PHYs
To:     Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
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On 11.05.2023 00:53, Daniel Golle wrote:
> Improve support for RealTek 2.5G Ethernet PHYs (RTL822x series).
> The PHYs can operate with Clause-22 and Clause-45 MDIO.
> 
> When using Clause-45 it is desireable to avoid rate-adapter mode and
> rather have the MAC interface mode follow the PHY speed. The PHYs
> support 2500Base-X for 2500M, and Cisco SGMII for 1000M/100M/10M.
> 
> Also prepare support for proprietary RealTek HiSGMII mode which will
> be needed for situations when used with RealTek switch or router SoCs
> such as RTL839x or RTL93xx.
> 
> Add support for Link Down Power Saving Mode (ALDPS) which is already
> supported for older RTL821x series 1GbE PHYs.
> 
> Make sure that link-partner advertised modes are only used if the
> advertisement can be considered valid. Otherwise we are seeing
> false-positives warning about downscaling eventhough higher speeds
> are not actually advertised by the link partner.
> 
> While at it, use helper function for paged operation and make sure
> to use use locking for that as well.
> 
> Changes since RFC:
>  * Turns out paged read used to identify the PHY needs to be hardcoded
>    for the simple reason that the function pointers for paged operations
>    have not yet been populated at this point. Hence keep open-coding it,
>    but use helper function and make sure it happening while the MDIO bus
>    mutex is locked.
> 
> Alexander Couzens (1):
>   net: phy: realtek: rtl8221: allow to configure SERDES mode
> 
> Chukun Pan (1):
>   net: phy: realtek: switch interface mode for RTL822x series
> 
> Daniel Golle (6):
>   net: phy: realtek: use genphy_soft_reset for 2.5G PHYs
>   net: phy: realtek: disable SGMII in-band AN for 2.5G PHYs
>   net: phy: realtek: make sure paged read is protected by mutex
>   net: phy: realtek: use inline functions for 10GbE advertisement
>   net: phy: realtek: check validity of 10GbE link-partner advertisement
>   net: phy: realtek: setup ALDPS on RTL8221B
> 
>  drivers/net/phy/realtek.c | 161 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 138 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> 

Has this series been tested with RTL8125A/B to ensure that the internal
PHY use case still works?