net: dsa: felix: delete .phylink_mac_an_restart code

Phylink uses the .mac_an_restart method to offer the user an
implementation of the "ethtool -r" behavior, when the media-side auto
negotiation can be restarted by the local MAC PCS. This is the case for
fiber modes 1000Base-X and 2500Base-X (IEEE clause 37) that don't have
an Ethernet PHY connected locally, and the media is connected to the MAC
PCS directly.

On the other hand, the Cisco SGMII and USXGMII standards also have an
auto negotiation mechanism based on IEEE 802.3 clause 37 (their
respective specs require a MAC PCS and a PHY PCS to implement the same
state machine, which is described in IEEE 802.3 "Auto-Negotiation Figure
37-6"), so the ability to restart auto-negotiation is intrinsically
symmetrical (the MAC PCS can do it too).

However, it appears that not all SGMII/USXGMII PHYs have logic to
restart the MDI-side auto-negotiation process when they detect a
transition of the SGMII link from data mode to configuration mode.
Some do (VSC8234) and some don't (AR8033, MV88E1111). IEEE and/or Cisco
specification wordings to not help to prove whether propagating the "AN
restart" event from MII side ("mr_restart_an") to MDI side
("mr_restart_negotiation") is required behavior - neither of them
specifies any mandatory interaction between the clause 37 AN state
machine from Figure 37-6 and the clause 28 AN state machine from Figure
28-18.

Therefore, even if a certain behavior could be proven as being required,
real-life SGMII/USXGMII PHYs are inconsistent enough that a clause 37 AN
restart cannot be used by phylink to reliably trigger a media-side
renegotiation, when the user requests it via ethtool.

The only remaining use that the .mac_an_restart callback might possibly
have, given what we know now, is to implement some silicon quirks, but
so far that has proven to not be necessary.

So remove this code for now, since it never gets called and we don't
foresee any circumstance in which it might be, either.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix.h b/drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix.h
index a891736ca006..4a4cebcf04a7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix.h
+++ b/drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix.h
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ struct felix_info {
 	void	(*pcs_init)(struct ocelot *ocelot, int port,
 			    unsigned int link_an_mode,
 			    const struct phylink_link_state *state);
-	void	(*pcs_an_restart)(struct ocelot *ocelot, int port);
 	void	(*pcs_link_state)(struct ocelot *ocelot, int port,
 				  struct phylink_link_state *state);
 	int	(*prevalidate_phy_mode)(struct ocelot *ocelot, int port,