RE: [PATCH net-next 10/10] net: stmmac: Try to get C45 PHY if everything else fails

From: Jose Abreu
Date: Thu Jun 27 2019 - 09:34:10 EST


From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

> 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 (????)