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Remove the PHY fixup for the LAN8835 PHY in the lan78xx driver due to the following reasons: - There is no publicly available information about the LAN8835 PHY. However, it appears to be the integrated PHY used in the LAN7800 and LAN7850 USB Ethernet controllers. These PHYs use the GMII interface, not RGMII as configured by the fixup. - The correct driver for handling the LAN8835 PHY functionality is the Microchip PHY driver (`drivers/net/phy/microchip.c`), which properly supports these integrated PHYs. - The PHY ID `0x0007C130` is actually used by the LAN8742A PHY, which only supports RMII. This interface is incompatible with the LAN78xx MAC, as the LAN7801 (the only LAN78xx version without an integrated PHY) supports only RGMII. - The mask applied for this fixup is overly broad, inadvertently covering both Microchip LAN88xx PHYs and unrelated SMSC LAN8742A PHYs, leading to potential conflicts with other devices. - Testing has shown that removing this fixup for LAN7800 and LAN7850 does not result in any noticeable difference in functionality, as the Microchip PHY driver (`drivers/net/phy/microchip.c`) handles all necessary configurations for these integrated PHYs. - Registering this fixup globally (not limited to USB devices) risks conflicts by unintentionally modifying other interfaces whenever a LAN7801 adapter is connected to the system. Note that both LAN7800 and LAN7850 USB Ethernet controllers use an integrated PHY with the ID `0x0007C132`. Additionally, the LAN7515, a specialized part for Raspberry Pi, includes an integrated LAN7800 USB Ethernet controller and USB hub in a multifunctional chip design, and it also uses the same PHY ID (`0x0007C132`). Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241204084142.1152696-2-o.rempel@pengutronix.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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