Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] net: phylink: always config mac for (delayed) phy

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 10:19:22AM +0300, Ilya K wrote:
> On 2025-01-09 12:15, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:56:17AM +0100, Eric Woudstra wrote:
> > I'll look at what we can do for this today.
> Hey folks, don't really want to necrobump this, but the original hack patch is the only way I can get my weirdo Realtek (noticing a pattern here) GPON modem-on-a-stick to probe at 2500base-x on a BPi-R4. I've actually tracked down the issue myself and wrote basically the same patch first :( Is there anything I can do (with my extremely limited phylink understanding) to help move this forward so other people don't have to suffer like I did?

There were two issues that were identified. The first was that when in
2500Base-X mode, the PCS wasn't reporting link-up. That was addressed
by the patch series:

Z4TbR93B-X8A8iHe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

then, the replacement for Eric's patch was:

E1tYhxp-001FHf-Ac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

So the problem should be solved with these applied, as when the PHY is
attached, "changed" will always be true, which is in effect what Eric's
patch was doing, but in a cleaner way.

Please confirm that you have all six patches applied.

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