Currently, supporting a fixed-phy in a MAC driver is a bit messy. It needs to be explicit supported, since a fixed phy is somewhat different from a normal phy.
These two patches solve this by making fixed-phys appear as normal PHYs within device tree, allowing them to be referenced by a phandle. Any MAC driver that supports phy-handle can then automatically support a fixed-phy without any code change. Andrew Lunn (2): of: of_mdio: Factor out fixed-link parsing phy: fixed-phy: Allow DT description of an MDIO bus and PHYs. .../devicetree/bindings/net/fixed-link.txt | 39 +++++++ drivers/net/phy/fixed_phy.c | 122 ++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/of/of_mdio.c | 34 +++--- include/linux/of_mdio.h | 11 +- 4 files changed, 188 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) -- 2.7.0
