On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 06:24:09PM +0800, Furong Xu wrote: > Your fix is better when link is up/down, so I vote verify_enabled. Hmmm... I thought this was a bug in stmmac that was carried over to ethtool_mmsv, but it looks like it isn't. In fact, looking at the original refactoring patch I had attached in this email: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20241217002254.lyakuia32jbnva46@skbuf/ these 2 lines in ethtool_mmsv_link_state_handle() didn't exist at all. } else { >>>> mmsv->status = ETHTOOL_MM_VERIFY_STATUS_INITIAL; >>>> mmsv->verify_retries = ETHTOOL_MM_MAX_VERIFY_RETRIES; /* No link or pMAC not enabled */ ethtool_mmsv_configure_pmac(mmsv, false); ethtool_mmsv_configure_tx(mmsv, false); } Faizal, could you remind me why they were added? I don't see this explained in change logs.
