Re: [PATCH v2] lan743x: add virtual PHY for PHY-less devices

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Fri Jan 22 2021 - 16:55:14 EST




On 1/22/2021 1:42 PM, Sergej Bauer wrote:
> From: sbauer@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> v1->v2:
> switch to using of fixed_phy as was suggested by Andrew and Florian
> also features-related parts are removed
>
> Previous versions can be found at:
> v1:
> initial version
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/17/1272
>
> Signed-off-by: Sergej Bauer <sbauer@xxxxxxxxxxx>

You are not explaining why you need this and why you are second guessing
the fixed PHY MII emulation that already exists. You really need to do a
better job at describing your changes and why the emulation offered by
swphy.c is not enough for your use case.
--
Florian