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From:   Sergej Bauer <sbauer@blackbox.su>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] lan743x: add virtual PHY for PHY-less devices
Date:   Sat, 23 Jan 2021 01:11:34 +0300
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On Saturday, January 23, 2021 12:52:48 AM MSK Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 1/22/2021 1:42 PM, Sergej Bauer wrote:
> > From: sbauer@blackbox.su
> > 
> > v1->v2:
> > 	switch to using of fixed_phy as was suggested by Andrew and Florian
> > 	also features-related parts are removed
> > 
> > Previous versions can be found at:
> > v1:
> > initial version
> > 
> > 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/17/1272
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sergej Bauer <sbauer@blackbox.su>
> 
> You are not explaining why you need this and why you are second guessing
> the fixed PHY MII emulation that already exists. You really need to do a
> better job at describing your changes and why the emulation offered by
> swphy.c is not enough for your use case.

ok, I'll try to accomplish it with swphy.

-- 
                                    Regards,
                                           Sergej.