On 9/16/2020 1:44 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
Hi all, This patch series is intended to address the very specific case of the Broadcom STB internal Gigabit PHY devices that require both a dummy read because of a hardware issue with their MDIO interface. We also need to turn on their internal digital PHY otherwise they will not be responding to any MDIO read or write. If they do not respond we would not be able to identify their OUI and associate them with an appropriate PHY driver.
Scratch this, looks like we can solve this entirely and in a better way using the Ethernet PHY driver only and using the appropriate compatible string for Ethernet PHYs in the form of "ethernet-phyidAAAA.BBBB".
Please discard this for now. -- Florian
