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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c9
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index e35460165bf..0a06e4fd37d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -231,15 +231,6 @@ struct phy_device * get_phy_device(struct mii_bus *bus, int addr)
if ((phy_id & 0x1fffffff) == 0x1fffffff)
return NULL;
- /*
- * Broken hardware is sometimes missing the pull-up 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);
return dev;