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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 10:58:40 +0800 From: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com> To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> Cc: hkallweit1@...il.com, linux@...linux.org.uk, peppe.cavallaro@...com, alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com, joabreu@...opsys.com, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] net: mdio: Mask PHY only when its ACPI node is present On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 10:47 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 08:40:48PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote: > > Not all PHY has an ACPI node, for those nodes auto probing is still > > needed. > > Why do you need this? > > Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/dsd/phy.rst > > There is nothing here about there being PHYs which are not listed in > ACPI. If you have decided to go the ACPI route, you need to list the > PHYs. This is for backward-compatibility. MAC can have ACPI node but PHY may not have one. On ACPI based platform, stmmac is using mdiobus_register() and its PHY is using autoprobing, so masking all PHYs from autoprobing will break those stmmac users. Kai-Heng > > Andrew
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