Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/9] net: phy: Allow PHY drivers to report isolation support

From: Maxime Chevallier
Date: Mon Oct 07 2024 - 06:01:48 EST


On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 18:46:20 +0200
Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 06:15:53PM +0200, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> > Some PHYs have malfunctionning isolation modes, where the MII lines
> > aren't correctly set in high-impedance, potentially interfering with the
> > MII bus in unexpected ways. Some other PHYs simply don't support it.
>
> Do we have in this case multiple isolation variants like high-impedance
> and "the other one"? :) Do the "the other one" is still usable for some
> cases like Wake on LAN without shared xMII?

I don't think there are multiple variants, at least I didn't see any :/

Maxime