On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 08:26:22PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > When I say "device unbind", I don't just mean manual unbinding using > sysfs. I mean any code path (rmmod, unplugging the USB, etc.) that > leads to the device being detached from its driver. This is a > perfectly normal situation and should work correctly. > > I won't be fixing it for this series but may end up looking into > establishing some kind of device links between MACs and their "remote" > PHYs that would allow to safely unbind them. I don't think you're the first to suggest that! That gets difficult - because although the PHY may be a different driver, the MDIO bus may be provided by the _same_ hardware as the ethernet MAC itself. So you end up with a circular dependency - the PHY device depends on the MDIO bus device (which is the ethernet MAC) and then you make the ethernet MAC depend on the PHY device. -- RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTP is here! 80Mbps down 10Mbps up. Decent connectivity at last!
