Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: mt7622: fix switch probe on bananapi-r64

["Arınç ÜNAL" <arinc.unal@arinc9.com>]

On 17/05/2024 09.27, Frank Wunderlich wrote:
> Am 17. Mai 2024 04:17:47 MESZ schrieb "Arınç ÜNAL" <arinc.unal@arinc9.com>:
>> On 16/05/2024 23:48, Frank Wunderlich wrote:
>>> From: Frank Wunderlich <frank-w@public-files.de>
>>>
>>> After commit 868ff5f4944a
>>> ("net: dsa: mt7530-mdio: read PHY address of switch from device tree")
>>> the mt7531 switch on Bananapi-R64 was not detected.
>>>
>>> mt7530-mdio mdio-bus:00: reset timeout
>>> mt7530-mdio mdio-bus:00: probe with driver mt7530-mdio failed with error -110
>>>
>>> Fix this by adding phy address in devicetree.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Frank Wunderlich <frank-w@public-files.de>
>>
>> I don't like the mention of the Linux kernel driver on the patch log. What
>> you're fixing is the incorrect description of the switch's PHY address on
>> the DTS file. Whether or not any driver from any project is actually
>> reading it from the DTS file is irrelevant to this patch. That said, I
>> already have a patch series I've been meaning to send the next version of
>> that already addresses this. Please wait for that.
>>
>> Arınç
> 
> Hi arinc,
> 
>  From my PoV it is a regression in next/6.10 because the driver change was merged (without "broadcast" fallback) and the dts patch [1] is not.

What is a broadcast fallback? 0x1f is just another PHY address.

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