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

Maxime Chevallier maxime.chevallier at bootlin.com
Mon Oct 7 02:52:50 PDT 2024


On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 18:46:20 +0200
Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel at pengutronix.de> wrote:

> 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 don't think there are multiple variants, at least I didn't see any :/

Maxime



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