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;