Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Apr 2020 15:06:45 +0200 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: mdio: of: Do not treat fixed-link as PHY |
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> Hi Andrew > > > > > There are some still using this deprecated feature. But macb is the > > only one doing this odd looping over child nodes. It is this looping > > which is breaking things, not the use of the deprecated feature > > itself. > > Yes, its due to the fact that the MDIO node is missing. Should we have > in mind to add an MDIO node under the macb node, where we could add the > PHY nodes?
Yes, you can make the driver complient any time you want. But as you said, you need to keep with backwards compatibility. But net-next is closed now, for the merge window. So you probably want to wait two weeks before posting code.
Andrew
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