linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v7 5/5] ARM: dts: qcom: ipq4019: Add description for the IPQESS Ethernet controller

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Message-ID: <20221104164533.32qelsphhcmnm2gi@skbuf>
Date:   Fri, 4 Nov 2022 16:45:34 +0000
From:   Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
To:     Robert Marko <robert.marko@...tura.hr>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7 5/5] ARM: dts: qcom: ipq4019: Add description
 for the IPQESS Ethernet controller

On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 05:42:30PM +0100, Robert Marko wrote:
> > +                       phy-mode = "internal";
> > +                       status = "disabled";
> 
> The fixed-link should be defined here AFAIK, otherwise it will fail probing with
> just internal PHY mode.

It wouldn't fail to probe because it has status = "disabled" by default,
and who enables that would also provide the fixed-link presumably.
But if the speed of the pseudo-MAC that goes to the switch is not board
specific, indeed the fixed-link belongs to the SoC dtsi.