netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: phy: Update get_phy_c45

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Message-ID: <20170523160353.GB21169@lunn.ch>
Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 18:03:53 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Bogdan Purcareata <bogdan.purcareata@....com>
Cc:     f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: phy: Update get_phy_c45_ids for Cortina PHYs

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 03:53:18PM +0000, Bogdan Purcareata wrote:
> Complete the work started by the following patches
> 5f6c99e0 net: phy: fix a bug in get_phy_c45_ids
> da1da284 net/phy: tune get_phy_c45_ids to support more c45 phy
> 
> in order to properly get non-standard C45 10G PHY IDs (e.g. Cortina
> CS4340).

At a first look, this seems to be a hack to work around a broken phy.

Instead of this, can you use the ethernet-phy-id property in device
tree?

	Andrew