From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>,
Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] RFC: net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Register mdio-external
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:45:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1209f419-acb0-4da8-bd87-03ccc1ee5244@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231013-marvell-88e6152-wan-led-v1-3-0712ba99857c@linaro.org>
On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 12:35:16AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Make it legal to have a subnode just named "mdio-external"
> and have that be recognized immediately as the external
> MDIO bus, register it and return. Only fallback to the
> old method with a compatible in the external bus node
> if this doesn't work.
>
> This is the result of deprecating the old DT method
> of providing a node "mdio1" with a compatible string.
What is missing from this description is why do you want to deprecate
the old method? What is wrong with it?
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-13 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-12 22:35 [PATCH 0/3] Create a binding for the Marvell MV88E6xxx DSA switches Linus Walleij
2023-10-12 22:35 ` [PATCH 1/3] ARM: dts: marvell: Fix some common switch mistakes Linus Walleij
2023-10-12 22:35 ` [PATCH 2/3] RFC: dt-bindings: marvell: Rewrite in schema Linus Walleij
2023-10-12 23:26 ` Rob Herring
2023-10-13 12:43 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-10-13 13:04 ` Linus Walleij
2023-10-13 14:18 ` Rob Herring
2023-10-13 15:40 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-10-12 22:35 ` [PATCH 3/3] RFC: net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Register mdio-external Linus Walleij
2023-10-13 12:45 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2023-10-13 14:15 ` Rob Herring
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