linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] net: mdio: rtl9300: setup PHY polling registers

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Message-ID: <8663bcdb-4c53-45f5-88fc-1f01f816e8b0@lunn.ch>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:46:58 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
Cc: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@...il.com>,
	Markus Stockhausen <markus.stockhausen@....de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] net: mdio: rtl9300: setup PHY polling
 registers

> Only a small subset has been seen in the wild inside RealTek switches
> for now. Most, of course, come with RealTek switches. However, it is
> only very recently that RealTek offers 10G PHYs, so before vendors
> were using 10G PHYs of other vendors, in practise I've only seen
> Aquantia.

...

> Yes, that does sound better, especially with your concern about
> ->supported mask not necessarily being correct at probe time in mind.

FYI: The Aquantia PHYs are particularly bad with ->supported.

	Andrew