Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] net: stmmac: allow drivers to explicitly select PHY device

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 02:37:03PM -0600, James Hilliard wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
> >
> > > Sure, that may make sense to do as well, but I still don't see
> > > how that impacts the need to runtime select the PHY which
> > > is configured for the correct MFD.
> >
> > If you know what variant you have, you only include the one PHY you
> > actually have, and phy-handle points to it, just as normal. No runtime
> > selection.
> 
> Oh, so here's the issue, we have both PHY variants, older hardware
> generally has AC200 PHY's while newer ships AC300 PHY's, but
> when I surveyed our deployed hardware using these boards many
> systems of similar age would randomly mix AC200 and AC300 PHY's.

Are they pin compatible?

But i assume none of these boards .dts files are actually in mainline?
So they need to go through review, and are likely to be horribly
broken and need fixing? So you can fix up the PHY node as part of the
cleanup.

	Andrew