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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Subject: Re: Debugging Ethernet issues
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 14:34:28 +0100
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> How exactly does one use the generic PHY driver?

If there is no specific driver available for the PHY, linux will fall
back to the generic driver. So just don't compile the specific driver.
You can see under /sys/bus/mdio_bus/devices which driver is being
used.

	Andrew