Re: [net-next RFC PATCH v4 1/6] net: phy: pass PHY driver to .match_phy_device OP

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 11:45:12PM +0100, Christian Marangi wrote:
> Pass PHY driver pointer to .match_phy_device OP in addition to phydev.
> Having access to the PHY driver struct might be useful to check the
> PHY ID of the driver is being matched for in case the PHY ID scanned in
> the phydev is not consistent.
> 
> A scenario for this is a PHY that change PHY ID after a firmware is
> loaded, in such case, the PHY ID stored in PHY device struct is not
> valid anymore and PHY will manually scan the ID in the match_phy_device
> function.
> 
> Having the PHY driver info is also useful for those PHY driver that
> implement multiple simple .match_phy_device OP to match specific MMD PHY
> ID. With this extra info if the parsing logic is the same, the matching
> function can be generalized by using the phy_id in the PHY driver
> instead of hardcoding.
> 
> Suggested-by: Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Too much copy'n'pasting?

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