[PATCH 0/3] net-next: stmmac: support future possible different internal phy mode

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Fri Jul 28 06:55:44 PDT 2017


On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 11:28:15AM +0200, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> Hello
> 
> The current way to find if the phy is internal is to compare DT phy-mode
> and emac_variant/internal_phy.
> But it will negate a possible future SoC where an external PHY use the
> same phy mode than the internal one.
> 
> This patchs series adds a new way to find if the PHY is internal, via its
> compatible.

http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/of/of_mdio.c#L144

Since you also have "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22", you won't get the
warning. But still, your device tree gives the wrong idea.

I've probably asked this before: Does the internal PHY use a different
PHY ID in registers 2 and 3?

    Andrew



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