> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Hao [mailto:haoke...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 3:43 PM
> To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Florian Fainelli; Xie Shaohui-B21989
> Subject: [PATCH] Revert "net/phy: Add Vitesse 8641 phy ID"
> 
> This reverts commit 1298267b548a78840bd4b3e030993ff8747ca5e6.
> 
> That commit claim that the Vitesse VSC8641 is compatible with Vitesse
> 82xx. But this is not true. It seems that all the registers used in
> Vitesse phy driver are not compatible between 8641 and 82xx.
[S.H] There are differences between some register's bit define. 
But some are not used by driver. 

> It does cause malfunction of the Ethernet on p1010rdb-pa board.
[S.H] Which exact register's setting caused problem? If it needs different 
setting,
It can be handled by distinguishing phy_id, or replacing relative API for 
VSC8641.

Thanks!
Shaohui
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