Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: mdio: support c45 peripherals on c22 busses

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 07:58:33PM +0200, danilokrummrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> For this cited change the only thing happening is that if get_phy_device()
> already failed for probing with is_c45==false (C22 devices) it tries to
> probe with is_c45==true (C45 devices) which then either results into actual
> C45 frame transfers or indirect accesses by calling mdiobus_c45_*() functions.

Please explain why and how a PHY may not appear to be present using
C22 frames to read the ID registers, but does appear to be present
when using C22 frames to the C45 indirect registers - and summarise
which PHYs have this behaviour.

It seems very odd that any PHY would only implement C45 indirect
registers in the C22 register space.

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