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From: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V3 3/4] net: lan743x: Migrate phylib to phylink
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In the longer term, it would probably make sense for phylink to provide a mechanism where a MAC
driver can tell phylink to switch to using a fixed-link with certain parameters.

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I think it's time to implement the suggestion in the last paragraph rather than using fixed-phy.

We looked into an alternate way to migrate our lan743x driver from phylib to phylink continuing to support our existing hardware out in the field, without using the phylib's fixed-phy approach that you opposed to, but without modifying the phylib framework either. 
While investigating how to implement it we came across this which Raju borrowed ideas from: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/YtGPO5SkMZfN8b%2Fs@shell.armlinux.org.uk/ (local) . He is in the process of testing/cleaning it up and expects to submit it early next week.