From: Marek Vasut <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:35:06 +0200

> The KSZ8051 PHY and the KSZ8794/KSZ8795/KSZ8765 switch share exactly the
> same PHY ID. Since KSZ8051 is higher in the ksphy_driver[] list of PHYs
> in the micrel PHY driver, it is used even with the KSZ87xx switch. This
> is wrong, since the KSZ8051 configures registers of the PHY which are
> not present on the simplified KSZ87xx switch PHYs and misconfigures
> other registers of the KSZ87xx switch PHYs.
> 
> Fortunatelly, it is possible to tell apart the KSZ8051 PHY from the
> KSZ87xx switch by checking the Basic Status register Bit 0, which is
> read-only and indicates presence of the Extended Capability Registers.
> The KSZ8051 PHY has those registers while the KSZ87xx switch does not.
> 
> This patch implements simple check for the presence of this bit for
> both the KSZ8051 PHY and KSZ87xx switch, to let both use the correct
> PHY driver instance.
> 
> Fixes: 9d162ed69f51 ("net: phy: micrel: add support for KSZ8795")
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <[email protected]>

Applied.

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