| Date | Thu, 14 Sep 2023 14:47:44 +0200 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/7] net: phy: introduce phy numbering |
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> FWIW when thinking about multiple PHY to a single MAC, what comes to my > mind is the SIS 900 board, and its driver net/ethernet/sis/sis900.c > > It has a function sis900_default_phy() that loops over all phys to find > one with up-link then to put all but that one in ISOLATE mode. Then when > the link goes down it loops again to find another up-link. > > I guess your series would also help in that case, wouldn't it ?
Yes, it would. However, that driver would need its PHY handling re-written because it is using the old MII code, not phylib.
Andrew
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