On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 5:13 PM Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> wrote: > > > The frame-generator is an interesting feature of the PHY, that's not > > useful for the current phylib; the PHY can send packages [like a > > signal generator], and then these can be looped back, or sent over the > > wire. >
removed my typo-ed [work] email i use gmail as a mirror-email for my work email, because.... reasons and i added my work-email to the --cc list with a typo, because the universe seems to have wanted that [in a manner of saying it] > Many PHYs that that. I posted some patches to the list a few years ago > adding basic support for the Marvell PHY frame generator. They got > NACKed. The netlink API, and some of the infrastructure i added for > cable testing would make it possible to fix the issues that caused the > NACK. i'll think about the frame-generator; i was super-happy when the cable-test support was added; when i first wrote the PHY, i actually wrote this logic for cable-testing, then scrapped it because the code [without any framework around it] just looked bad, and like it was asking to cause trouble; with this minimal framework in place, cable-testing looks like a neat feature [and neatly implemented]; and it took me less than a day to write and test it; so, thank you for this :) > > > Having said this, I'll include some comments for these in a V2 of this > > patchset. > > Thanks. > > Andrew > > P.S. > > Your mail is broken somehow: > > Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups: > > alexaundru.ardel...@analog.com > The email address you entered couldn't be found. Please check the recipient's > email address and try to resend the message. If the problem continues, please > contact your email admin.