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SubjectRe: stmmac regression on ASUS TinkerBoard
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Hi,

Am Dienstag, 25. Juni 2019, 09:46:12 CEST schrieb Jose Abreu:
> From: Katsuhiro Suzuki <katsuhiro@katsuster.net>
>
> > I checked drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c and found
> > stmmac_init_phy() is going to fail if ethernet device node does not
> > have following property:
> > - phy-handle
> > - phy
> > - phy-device
> >
> > This commit broke the device-trees such as TinkerBoard. The mdio
> > subnode creating a mdio bus is changed to required or still optional?
>
> Yeah, with PHYLINK the PHY binding is always required ...
>
> How do you want to proceed ? I think DT bindings can never break between
> releases so I will probably need to cook a patch for stmmac.

Correct ... old devicetrees on new kernels should not break.
Especially as this affects a big number of boards potentially loosing
network support and in the devicetree binding the phy property is also
marked as optional.

Heiko


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