On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 11:27:07AM -0700, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 1:29 AM Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 03:13:26PM -0700, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote: > > > This means even with the option manually enabled, we'd still need to > > > cherrypick dde25846925765a88df8964080098174495c1f10 > > > "net: usb/phy: asix: add support for ax88772A/C PHYs" > > > since apparently this is simply new(ish) hardware with built-in x88772C PHY. > > > > > > As far as I see, you are not using clean mainline stable kernel. All changes > > which make your kernel to need an external PHY driver are _not_ in v5.10.198. > > No, the dmesg was actually from a (probably clean-ish 6.4-ish) debian > kernel on my laptop, > where the device enumerates and works in one of the 2 usb-c ports. > > As I mentioned the hardware that actually runs 5.10 is having issues > even detecting my test device. > (and while that 5.10 is far from clean mainline, the usb and network > driver portions are more or less untouched) > > > You will need to cherrypick at least 28 last patches from this stack: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c?h=v6.6-rc6 > > > > and some from here too: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c?h=v6.6-rc6 > > I think this basically means the answer is "if you want this to work > upgrade to a newer kernel". > Which of course won't make any users happy, but oh well... It means - what ever problem there is, it is most probably not related to the asix driver. In kernel v5.10, there are no external dependencies to other PHY drivers. Regards, Oleksij -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |
