From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 02:46:15 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Merge branch 'net-phy-remove-fixed_phy_add-and-first-its-users' X-Git-Tag: v6.19-rc1~170^2~231 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bd0fa860730861bd6482b7acc5d39fd1e15c7453;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git Merge branch 'net-phy-remove-fixed_phy_add-and-first-its-users' Heiner Kallweit says: ==================== net: phy: remove fixed_phy_add and first its users fixed_phy_add() has a number of problems/disadvantages: - It uses phy address 0 w/o checking whether a fixed phy with this address exists already. - A subsequent call to fixed_phy_register() would also use phy address 0, because fixed_phy_add() doesn't mark it as used. - fixed_phy_add() is used from platform code, therefore requires that fixed phy code is built-in. fixed_phy_add() has only two users - coldfire/5272, using fec - bcm47xx, using b44 So migrate fec and b44 to use fixed_phy_register_100fd(), afterwards remove usage of fixed_phy_add() from the two platforms, and eventually remove fixed_phy_add(). ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0285fcb0-0fb5-4f6f-823c-7b6e85e28ba3@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- bd0fa860730861bd6482b7acc5d39fd1e15c7453