> If I wanted it to work, what do I need to do? AFAICT phy autoprobing > should just attach it as soon as it is compiled in?
Nope. It is a switch, not a PHY. Switches are never auto-probed because they are not guaranteed to have ID registers. You need to use the legacy device tree binding. Look in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/dsa.txt, section Deprecated Binding. You can get more examples if you checkout old kernels. Or kirkwood-rd88f6281.dtsi, the dsa { } node which is disabled. Andrew