On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 02:48:12PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:

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IIRC, the "phy" clock is used to pass the phy from the mac core, I will
double check if it is possible to connect to the phy directly.

Are you saying this is the reference clock output from the MAC being
fed to the PHY? That would be a clock provider, not a clock consumer.

Or is it the reference clock output from the PHY going to the MAC?
Then the MAC would be a consumer.

And there are some designs which have a third party generate the
clock, and both the MAC and the PHY consume it.

I have confirmed the clock is directly from the the clock tree and
is consumed only by the PHY. It seems like I have got a wrong
information about this. So let's remove it and let the phy consume
the clock if it use this clock.

Regards,
Inochi