From: <redacted>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:17:15 +0800

+static int aquantia_soft_reset(struct phy_device *phydev)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int aquantia_config_init(struct phy_device *phydev)
+{
+	return 0;
+}

You shouldn't need to implement these methods at all, just
leave them NULL in the driver struct.

The only thing implementing them as nop routines like this does is
make the PHY fixups get scanned.  And I don't think there are any
for this device.