netdev - Re: Q: force netif ON even when there is no real link ?

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Date:   Sat, 21 Apr 2018 00:04:26 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Ran Shalit <ranshalit@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q: force netif ON even when there is no real link ?

> By saying "mac driver", I mean Ethernet driver with fixed phy.

The fixed-phy implements the usual PHY API. So the MAC driver just
sees a PHY which has a fixed speed, and is up.

     Andrew