1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index e35460165bf7..0a06e4fd37d9 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;