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On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 02:46:58PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Only a small subset has been seen in the wild inside RealTek switches
> > for now. Most, of course, come with RealTek switches. However, it is
> > only very recently that RealTek offers 10G PHYs, so before vendors
> > were using 10G PHYs of other vendors, in practise I've only seen
> > Aquantia.
> 
> ...
> 
> > Yes, that does sound better, especially with your concern about
> > ->supported mask not necessarily being correct at probe time in mind.
> 
> FYI: The Aquantia PHYs are particularly bad with ->supported.

Yes, but the PHY driver takes care of that and implements fixes via a
custom .get_features op. That's precisely why I'd like the MDIO polling
controller to rely on what the PHY driver has "discovered" and set in
->supported, instead of doing all that in duplicate open-coded MDIO bus
scanning and PHY probing in the MDIO driver, which is exactly why I
believe we should have API for that.