netdev - Re: [PATCH net v1 1/1] net: phy: micrel: ksz8081: disable broadcast only if PHY address is not 0

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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:57:40 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 stable@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, Lukasz Majewski <lukma@...x.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v1 1/1] net: phy: micrel: ksz8081: disable broadcast
 only if PHY address is not 0

On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 07:33:53 +0200 Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> Do not disable broadcast if we are using address 0 (broadcast) to
> communicate with this device. Otherwise we will use proper driver but no
> communication will be possible and no link changes will be detected.
> There are two scenarios where we can run in to this situation:
> - PHY is bootstrapped for address 0
> - no PHY address is known and linux is scanning the MDIO bus, so first
>   respond and attached device will be on address 0.
> 
> The fixes tag points to the latest refactoring, not to the initial point
> where kszphy_broadcast_disable() was introduced.
> 
> Fixes: 79e498a9c7da0 ("net: phy: micrel: Restore led_mode and clk_sel on resume")

Is there a reason you're not CCing the author ?