On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 12:15:21PM +0000, Martin Pålsson wrote:

The LAN7801 is designed exclusively for external PHYs (unlike the
LAN7800/LAN7850 which have internal PHYs), but lan78xx_mdio_init()
restricts PHY scanning to MDIO addresses 0-7 by setting phy_mask to
~(0xFF). This prevents discovery of external PHYs wired to addresses
outside that range.

One such case is the DP83TC814 100BASE-T1 PHY, which is typically
configured at MDIO address 10 via PHYAD bootstrap pins and goes
undetected with the current mask.

Set phy_mask to 0 for the LAN7801 so that all 32 MDIO addresses are
scanned during bus registration, allowing any external PHY to be
discovered regardless of its address.

Signed-off-by: Martin Pålsson <redacted>

Since you are submitting this for net, it should have a Fixes: tag.

Also, since this is a 100Base PHY, i assume dev->interface needs to be
PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_MII? But it looks like lan78xx_get_phy() is hard
coding it to PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_ID for the 7801. How is this
working out for you?

	Andrew