netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: phy: bcm7xxx: request and manage GPHY clock

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Message-ID: <ecb04eba-dd43-4f46-0f19-8c7ae0abb04a@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:59:12 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, hkallweit1@...il.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: phy: bcm7xxx: request and manage GPHY
 clock



On 9/16/2020 1:44 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This patch series is intended to address the very specific case of the
> Broadcom STB internal Gigabit PHY devices that require both a dummy read
> because of a hardware issue with their MDIO interface. We also need to
> turn on their internal digital PHY otherwise they will not be responding
> to any MDIO read or write. If they do not respond we would not be able
> to identify their OUI and associate them with an appropriate PHY driver.

Scratch this, looks like we can solve this entirely and in a better way 
using the Ethernet PHY driver only and using the appropriate compatible 
string for Ethernet PHYs in the form of "ethernet-phyidAAAA.BBBB".

Please discard this for now.
-- 
Florian