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

[Jose Abreu]

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 01:33:59PM +0000, Jose Abreu wrote:
> > 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 (????)
> 
> 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.