This patch fixes the case when the phy_ids is mostly Fs and in some case 0x0
due to broken hardware.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
if (r)
return ERR_PTR(r);
- /* If the phy_id is all Fs or all 0s, there is no device there */
- if ((0xffff == phy_id) || (0x00 == phy_id))
+ /* If the phy_id is mostly Fs, there is no device there */
+ if ((phy_id & 0x1fffffff) == 0x1fffffff)
+ return NULL;
+
+ /*
+ * Broken hardware is sometimes missing the pull down resistor on the
+ * MDIO line, which results in reads to non-existent devices returning
+ * 0 rather than 0xffff. Catch this here and treat 0 as a non-existent
+ * device as well.
+ */
+ if (phy_id == 0)
return NULL;
dev = phy_device_create(bus, addr, phy_id);