[U-Boot] [PATCH] UEC PHY: Speed up initial PHY neg.

[Detlev Zundel]

Hi Jocke,

> Instead of always performing an autoneg, check if the PHY
> already has a link and if it matches one of the requested
> modes. Initially only 100MbFD is optimized this way.

Isn't it about time that we think about _not_ stopping the ethernet
device after every transaction?

Why not initialize it for the first transfer and stop it once we boot a
kernel?  For USB for example we do just that.

Sorry for not providing a concrete patch, but I felt it is worthwhile to
throw that thought into the discussion as it pops up more and more often
nowadays.  For example usb-cdc which currently deregisters the network
device on the host side after _every_ transfer....

Cheers
  Detlev

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