Merge branch 'ethtool-introduce-phy-mse-diagnostics-uapi-and-drivers'

Oleksij Rempel says:

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ethtool: introduce PHY MSE diagnostics UAPI and drivers

This series introduces a generic kernel-userspace API for retrieving PHY
Mean Square Error (MSE) diagnostics, together with netlink integration,
a fast-path reporting hook in LINKSTATE_GET, and initial driver
implementations for the KSZ9477 and DP83TD510E PHYs.

MSE is defined by the OPEN Alliance "Advanced diagnostic features for
100BASE-T1 automotive Ethernet PHYs" specification [1] as a measure of
slicer error rate, typically used internally to derive the Signal
Quality Indicator (SQI). While SQI is useful as a normalized quality
index, it hides raw measurement data, varies in scaling and thresholds
between vendors, and may not indicate certain failure modes - for
example, cases where autonegotiation would fail even though SQI reports
a good link. In practice, such scenarios can only be investigated in
fixed-link mode; here, MSE can provide an empirically estimated value
indicating conditions under which autonegotiation would not succeed.

Example output with current implementation:
root@DistroKit:~ ethtool lan1
Settings for lan1:
...
        Speed: 1000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
...
        Link detected: yes
        SQI: 5/7
        MSE: 3/127 (channel: worst)

root@DistroKit:~ ethtool --show-mse lan1
MSE diagnostics for lan1:
MSE Configuration:
        Max Average MSE: 127
        Refresh Rate: 2000000 ps
        Symbols per Sample: 250
        Supported capabilities: average channel-a channel-b channel-c
                                channel-d worst

MSE Snapshot (Channel: a):
        Average MSE: 4

MSE Snapshot (Channel: b):
        Average MSE: 3

MSE Snapshot (Channel: c):
        Average MSE: 2

MSE Snapshot (Channel: d):
        Average MSE: 3

[1] https://opensig.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Advanced_PHY_features_for_automotive_Ethernet_V1.0.pdf
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027122801.982364-1-o.rempel@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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