Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] sungem: validate BCM5411 PHY register reads

[Andrew Lunn]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 03:33:48AM +0000, Joel wrote:
> Check for -EIO and 0xffff during initialization to prevent silent failures. Add error logging to gem_init_phy to report failures.

I assume you have the hardware?

Looking at the git history, there have not been any fixes to this
driver since 2012. Why has this problem suddenly appeared? Is you
hardware getting flaky?

       Andrew