Re: [PATCH net-next v1 2/2] net: phy: realtek: load firmware for RTL8261C

[Daniel Golle]

On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 03:52:26PM +0800, javen wrote:
> From: Javen Xu <javen_xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This patch adds support for loading firmware. Download some parameters
> for RTL8261C.

I'd like to bring to your attention that the OpenWrt community
has impemented a more complete support for initial register patching
using a extremely similar firmware format.

https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/blob/main/target/linux/generic/pending-6.18/742-net-phy-realtek-add-5G-and-10G-PHY-support.patch

We used 'RTK_PATCH_OP_*' while this series uses only 'OP_*' as
macro names defining the initval patching operations.

As the vendor downstream driver had the operations hard-coded in tables
our community came up with a tool to generate the patching blobs from the
GPL-licensed vendor driver:

https://github.com/balika011/realtek_phy_firmware

Given the similarity I wonder if this code has been taken from Balázs
Triszka work (which clearly predates it) without giving him the due
credit.