From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752766AbaCJAaF (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Mar 2014 20:30:05 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:37270 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752615AbaCJAaD (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Mar 2014 20:30:03 -0400 Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 20:30:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20140309.203001.1318893833441564547.davem@davemloft.net> To: sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com Cc: rob@landley.net, andrew@lunn.ch, f.fainelli@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: Add sysfs attribute to prevent PHY suspend From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <531CF864.9040406@gmail.com> References: <1394192092-27461-1-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> <20140309.191235.1047481546773873653.davem@davemloft.net> <531CF864.9040406@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.7 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Sun, 09 Mar 2014 17:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Sebastian Hesselbarth Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 00:25:24 +0100 > There is no way to determine if a bootloader is broken or not. The > sysfs knob allows to provide a use case based decision. Of course, > we can invent some freaky device tree property but that the DT > maintainers will not like either. My point is that whatever mechanism is used to "decide" that the sysfs knob gets set, can also be used to "decide" that a DT property is instantiated in the device tree.