[PATCH net-next v2 3/9] net: phy: Allow PHY drivers to report isolation support

Oleksij Rempel o.rempel at pengutronix.de
Fri Oct 4 09:46:20 PDT 2024


On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 06:15:53PM +0200, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> Some PHYs have malfunctionning isolation modes, where the MII lines
> aren't correctly set in high-impedance, potentially interfering with the
> MII bus in unexpected ways. Some other PHYs simply don't support it.

Do we have in this case multiple isolation variants like high-impedance
and "the other one"? :)  Do the "the other one" is still usable for some
cases like Wake on LAN without shared xMII?

I'm just curios.

Regards,
Oleksij
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