Re: [PATCH] net: usb: lan78xx: add weak dependency with micrel phy module

Andrew Lunn
2024-07-29T12:42:29Z

On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 10:37:38AM +0200, Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
>
> I like the idea from Jakub, reading the associated phy from the hardware
> in some way, although reading your last comments I don't know if it could
> be possible for all the cases.
> Let me ask you about this to understand better, if present,
> always reading /sys/bus/mdio_bus/devices/*/phy_id,
> could it be enough to get the possible related phy?
> And after this get the related phy module?

There should be sufficient information in /sys. eg.

$ cat /sys/class/net/enp1s0/phydev/phy_id
0x001cc914

So enp1s0 probed a PHY using the ID 0x001cc914. Turn that into binary
and you get 0000 0000 0001 1100 1100 1001 0001 0100. Look that up in alias.

alias mdio:0000000000011100110010?????????? realtek

So you need to realtek PHY driver for my enp1s0.

Andrew