Re: [PATCH net-next v1] lan78xx: lan7801 MAC support with lan8841

Andrew Lunn
2024-06-13T20:46:23Z

On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 03:12:33PM +0530, Rengarajan S wrote:
> Add lan7801 MAC only support with lan8841. The PHY fixup is registered
> for lan8841 and the initializations are done using lan8835_fixup since
> the register configs are similar for both lann8841 and lan8835.

What exactly does this fixup do?

Looking at it, what protects it from being used on some other device
which also happens to use the same PHY? Is there something to
guarantee:

struct lan78xx_net *dev = netdev_priv(phydev->attached_dev);

really is a lan78xx_net * ?

Andrew