[PATCH 1/5] phylib: don't create a phydev for ID-less PHYs.

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se
Fri Apr 11 17:06:29 EST 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 13:51 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> I've tested on 8360, 8540 and 8641D and in all cases, the PHY
> ID returned for bus addr 0x1f is all zeros, and not all 0xf.
> This means we've been allocating a phydev for this "ghost".
> 
> In addition to marking 0x0 as an invalid PHY ID, I've also
> changed the existing somewhat useless printk to actually
> list the bus IDs where it found a PHY so we get a basic
> bus summary.
 
PHY ID 0x0 isn't an invalid id, I got a Broadcom PHY that has
PHY ID=0. Maybe I am misunderstanding something?

 Jocke



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