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SubjectRe: [5/6] mvneta: implement SGMII-based in-band link state signaling
Sebastien, Stas,

On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 11:03:26 +0200 (CEST), Sebastien Rannou wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Stas Sergeev wrote:
>
> > What is there? A phy chip, or something else?
>
> It's "something else", there's a phy which aggregates 4xSGMIIs to
> 1xQSGMII, we are on the media side here, the MAC side is connected
> to the switch through QSGMII.
>
> > Perhaps some DT property should be added to explicitly
> > enable the use of the inband status...
>
> Yes, that would be fine.

Isn't it a bit weird to need a new DT property for this? Shouldn't
fixed-link always imply this inband status thing?

Thomas
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