From: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 01:33:59PM +0000, Jose Abreu wrote: > > From: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> > > > > > There have been some drivers gaining patches for ACPI. That is > > > probably the better long term solution, ask ACPI where is the PHY and > > > what MDIO protocol to use to talk to it. > > > > Hmmm, I'm not sure this is going to work that way ... > > > > My setup is a PCI EP which is hot-pluggable and as far as I know ACPI > > has only static content (????) > > I've wanted to improve the PHY probe code for a while. I was thinking > we should add a flag to the MDIO bus driver structure indicating it > can do C45. When that flag is present, we should also scan the bus for > C45 devices, and register them as well. > > With that in place, i think your problem goes away. Architecturally, i > think it is wrong that a MAC driver is registering PHY devices. The > MDIO core should do this.
Ok, I will drop this patch from the series until we come up with a better solution.
