netdev - Re: net: macb: fail when there's no PHY

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Date:   Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:35:24 +0530
From:   Harini Katakam <harinikatakamlinux@...il.com>
To:     Brandon Streiff <brandon.streiff@...com>
Cc:     Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net: macb: fail when there's no PHY

Hi Brandon,

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 3:05 AM, Brandon Streiff <brandon.streiff@...com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 01:05:57PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
<snip>
>
> I have a board that's in a similar boat. My workaround was to undo
> portions of dacdbb4dfc1a with the following patch; this lets me still
> use fixed-link and have MDIO (to configure a switch), but not require
> a PHY.
>
> There was a patch set last year by Harini Katakam ("net: macb: Add MDIO
> driver for accessing multiple PHY devices") that might ultimately be a
> better approach to tackling this problem, although I haven't seen any
> further chatter on it.

That patch was not backward compatible and I was trying to find a better
solution for a common MDIO bus.
I plan to send a new series next month and work on the review comments.

Regards,
Harini