Subject: Re: Q: force netif ON even when there is no real link ?

From: Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 00:04:26 +0200

> By saying "mac driver", I mean Ethernet driver with fixed phy.

The fixed-phy implements the usual PHY API. So the MAC driver just
sees a PHY which has a fixed speed, and is up.

     Andrew