From: Antoine Tenart <antoine.ten...@bootlin.com> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 12:00:44 +0100
> This series implements the suspend/resume callbacks in the marvell10g > PHY driver: > > - When the PHY isn't used, it is set in low power mode. > - At boot time we might now know the PHY status (as it's depending on > the hardware configuration, or on what the previous stages > configured), it is forced in low power. > > Doing this prevents a PHY which was initialized in a previous stage from > negotiating with the link partner when a local port is down. If the PHY > isn't shutdown when a port is not used, the link partner's PHY may > report the link being up while it's not. Looks like this needs some more discussion and Russell has some concerns still. So deferring to the next merge window, sorry.
