Re: [PATCH 10/19] usbnet: smsc95xx: Replace smsc95xx_mdio_read() with phy_read()

On 04.01.2019 16:57, Andrew Lunn wrote:

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I wonder, if I use the phylib functions instead of the ad-hoc ones in
the MAC driver, is there still a problem with synchronization ?

You would need to look deep into phylib. When does it reset the PHY?
Configure auto-neg, setup interrupts, etc? It looks like both are
going to do this, so i expect they are going to mess each other up.

Marek, I recently went through this exercise when switching r8169
driver to phylib. As Andrew explained:
First add needed functionality to the respective PHY driver(s),
then you can switch the network driver.
You can look at f1e911d5d0df ("r8169: add basic phylib support")
plus related changes, and to what was added to the Realtek PHY
driver module.