On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 03:01:09PM +0300, Ran Shalit wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 2:55 PM, Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:44:14AM +0300, Ran Shalit wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> We configure external switch in u-boot. > >> The configuration is through mdio (cpu is mac and switch is phy). > >> > >> But in Linux we rather not implement any communication in mdio to > >> switch, but it means that we then don't have the information of link > >> state. > >> > >> Is it possible to force in Linux (by default in startup) Ethernet > >> connectivity (netif_carrier_on, netif_wake_queue) even if there is no > >> information of real link state ? > > > > Hi Ran > > > > Use a fixed-phy. > > > > Hi Andrew, > > I'll check about fixed phy, > but in general, is it a problem to have always netif_carrier_on, even > when there is no link ?
The link between the CPU and the switch should be up all the time. That is the point of fixed-link. Andrew