Message ID | 20200916204415.1831417-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com |
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Headers | show |
Series | net: phy: bcm7xxx: request and manage GPHY clock | expand |
On 9/16/2020 1:44 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote: > Hi all, > > This patch series is intended to address the very specific case of the > Broadcom STB internal Gigabit PHY devices that require both a dummy read > because of a hardware issue with their MDIO interface. We also need to > turn on their internal digital PHY otherwise they will not be responding > to any MDIO read or write. If they do not respond we would not be able > to identify their OUI and associate them with an appropriate PHY driver. Scratch this, looks like we can solve this entirely and in a better way using the Ethernet PHY driver only and using the appropriate compatible string for Ethernet PHYs in the form of "ethernet-phyidAAAA.BBBB". Please discard this for now.