On 08/27/2018 02:09 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 01:52:42PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> On 08/27/2018 01:35 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote: >>>> @@ -210,6 +228,17 @@ >>>> reg = <4>; >>>> }; >>>> >>>> + port@5 { >>>> + label = "sfp"; >>>> + phy-mode = "sgmii"; >>>> + reg = <5>; >>>> + sfp = <&sfp>; >>>> + fixed-link { >>>> + speed = <1000>; >>>> + full-duplex; >>>> + }; >>> >>> Hi Florian >>> >>> You might want to add a comment about why you are using fixed-link and >>> sgmii, which seems very odd. Is it even correct? >> >> Probably not, this is kind of left over from before adding the sfp >> phandle, but if I do remove it, and I can see the DSA slave network >> device fail to initialize, likely because we destroy the PHYLINK instance. >> >> AFAIR, when we talked about this with Russell, I did not see why we had >> to comment out the following: >> >> diff --git a/net/dsa/slave.c b/net/dsa/slave.c >> index 962c4fd338ba..f3ae16dbf8d8 100644 >> --- a/net/dsa/slave.c >> +++ b/net/dsa/slave.c >> @@ -1227,7 +1227,7 @@ static int dsa_slave_phy_setup(struct net_device >> *slave_dev) >> netdev_err(slave_dev, >> "failed to connect to port %d: %d\n", >> dp->index, ret); >> - phylink_destroy(dp->pl); >> + //phylink_destroy(dp->pl); >> return ret; >> } >> } >> >> maybe you know? > > Hi Florian > > I didn't need anything like this for the mv88e6xxx. I had patches > merged in -rc1 to make SFF work connected to the mv88e6390. The DT > change was not merged, but it is here: > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/955635/ > > + port@9 { > + reg = <9>; > + label = "sff2"; > + phy-mode = "sgmii"; > + managed = "in-band-status"; ^===== Yes that is what I was missing, thanks Andrew! Still not 100% sure why having a "sfp" phandle is not enough, but I suppose there are problematic cases like the ZII Devel Rev. B where we have a SFF and we are not able to auto-negotiate the fiber connection. -- Florian