RE: [PATCH net-next v1 2/2] net: phy: realtek: load firmware for RTL8261C

[Javen <javen_xu@realsil.com.cn>]

>On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 03:52:26PM +0800, javen wrote:
>> From: Javen Xu <javen_xu@realsil.com.cn>
>>
>> This patch adds support for loading firmware. Download some parameters
>> for RTL8261C.
>
>I'd like to bring to your attention that the OpenWrt community has
>impemented a more complete support for initial register patching using a
>extremely similar firmware format.
>
>https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/blob/main/target/linux/generic/pendi
>ng-6.18/742-net-phy-realtek-add-5G-and-10G-PHY-support.patch
>
>We used 'RTK_PATCH_OP_*' while this series uses only 'OP_*' as macro
>names defining the initval patching operations.
>
>As the vendor downstream driver had the operations hard-coded in tables
>our community came up with a tool to generate the patching blobs from the
>GPL-licensed vendor driver:
>
>https://github.com/balika011/realtek_phy_firmware
>
>Given the similarity I wonder if this code has been taken from Balázs Triszka
>work (which clearly predates it) without giving him the due credit.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention and sharing the links to the OpenWrt community's and Balázs Triszka's work.

I have reviewed the repository and the patch you mentioned. I want to clarify that our code was developed independently. Since both implementations are tackling the exact same hardware requirements for Realtek PHYs, the fundamental hardware operations―such as read, write, mask, and delay―are strictly defined by the hardware. In this patch, we only kept some of the operations that are used, such as op_poll.

I hope this clears up the misunderstanding. 

BRs,
Javen