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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Subject: Re: Q: force netif ON even when there is no real link ?
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> By saying "mac driver", I mean Ethernet driver with fixed phy.

The fixed-phy implements the usual PHY API. So the MAC driver just
sees a PHY which has a fixed speed, and is up.

     Andrew