[PATCH net] net: phy: meson-gxl: use MMD access dummy stubs for GXL, internal PHY

Chris Healy cphealy at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 07:16:30 PST 2023


On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 9:55 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 22:03:21 +0100 Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> > Jerome provided the information that also the GXL internal PHY doesn't
> > support MMD register access and EEE. MMD reads return 0xffff, what
> > results in e.g. completely wrong ethtool --show-eee output.
> > Therefore use the MMD dummy stubs.
> >
> > Note: The Fixes tag references the commit that added the MMD dummy
> > access stubs.
> >
> > Fixes: 5df7af85ecd8 ("net: phy: Add general dummy stubs for MMD register access")
>
> Please make sure to CC the author. Adding Kevin Hao <haokexin at gmail.com>

Good point, I'll do that next time.



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