Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 20/22] net: dsa: sja1105: Reject unsupported link modes for AN

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Tue Apr 09 2019 - 22:09:34 EST




On 4/9/2019 5:56 PM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> Ethernet flow control:
>
> The switch MAC does not consume, nor does it emit pause frames. It
> simply forwards them as any other Ethernet frame (and since the DMAC is,
> per IEEE spec, 01-80-C2-00-00-01, it means they are filtered as
> link-local traffic and forwarded to the CPU, which can't do anything
> useful with them).
>
> Duplex:
>
> There is no duplex setting in the SJA1105 MAC. It is known to forward
> traffic at line rate on the same port in both directions. Therefore it
> must be that it only supports full duplex.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
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Florian