Hi Andrew, On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 9:45 PM Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> wrote: > > > Configure the host port of the switch to match the host interface > > settings. This is useful when the switch is directly connected to the > > host MAC interface. > > Why do you need this when no other board does? Why is your board > special? > > As i said before, i'm guessing your board has back to back PHYs > between the SoC and the switch and nobody else does. Is that the > reason why? Without this, nothing is configuring the switch MAC to the > results of the auto-neg between the two PHYs?
Yes that is the case. From here I see this patch is too specific to our setup, and so cannot be considered for merging. > > Or am i completely wrong? No, this is completely right. I will drop this patch then. Thank you very much for reviewing and for the suggestions. BR, Jean > > Andrew >
