Re: [v2,2/5] net: phy: realtek: simplify C22 reg access via MDIO_MMD_VEND2

On Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 03:55:15PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

On Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:40:36 +0000 Daniel Golle wrote:

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@@ -1156,7 +1156,8 @@ static int rtlgen_read_status(struct phy_device *phydev)
 	if (!phydev->link)
 		return 0;

-	val = phy_read(phydev, RTL_PHYSR);
+	val = phy_read_paged(phydev, RTL822X_VND2_TO_PAGE(RTL_VND2_PHYSR),
+			     RTL822X_VND2_TO_PAGE_REG(RTL_VND2_PHYSR));  

This changes rtlgen_read_status() from reading C22 register MII_RESV2
(0x1a) directly to using paged access at page 0xa43, register 18.  

Yeah. Just that this is not part of the series submitted.
It's rather a (halucinated) partial revert of
[v2,4/5] net: phy: realtek: demystify PHYSR register location

Oh wow, that's a first. No idea how this happened. Is the chunk if
hallucinated from another WIP patch set?

No, it's a partial revert of a later patch in the same series.

Chris, FWIW this is before we added lore indexing so I don't think 
it got it from the list. Is it possible that semcode index is polluted
by previous submissions? Still, even if, it's weird that it'd
hallucinate a chunk of a patch.

I don't think that as it is literally the revert of a later patch
in the same series. I don't think this has ever been submitted as
forward-patch, because it wouldn't ever apply throughout the history
of the driver. But it somehow superficially resembles

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/a53d4577335fdda4d363db9bc4bf614fd3a56c9b.1767630451.git.daniel@makrotopia.org/ (local)

(which is pretty recent and was applied)