Re: [PATCH 1/5] phylib: don't create a phydev for ID-less PHYs.

[Joakim Tjernlund]

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 13:51 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> I've tested on 8360, 8540 and 8641D and in all cases, the PHY
> ID returned for bus addr 0x1f is all zeros, and not all 0xf.
> This means we've been allocating a phydev for this "ghost".
> 
> In addition to marking 0x0 as an invalid PHY ID, I've also
> changed the existing somewhat useless printk to actually
> list the bus IDs where it found a PHY so we get a basic
> bus summary.
 
PHY ID 0x0 isn't an invalid id, I got a Broadcom PHY that has
PHY ID=0. Maybe I am misunderstanding something?

 Jocke
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html