On 11/03/16 15:36, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 03:26:42PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> On 11/03/16 15:08, Andrew Lunn wrote: >>> Currently, supporting a fixed-phy in a MAC driver is a bit messy. It >>> needs to be explicit supported, since a fixed phy is somewhat >>> different from a normal phy. >>> >>> These two patches solve this by making fixed-phys appear as normal >>> PHYs within device tree, allowing them to be referenced by a phandle. >>> Any MAC driver that supports phy-handle can then automatically support >>> a fixed-phy without any code change. >> >> Humm, if that's the problem we want to solve, we could introduce a >> helper function which tries to locate the phy using a 'phy-handle' >> property > > I don't follow you. Where do you get a phandle from to use with > phy-handle?
>From the caller of the function: the consumer of that phy-handle and/or fixed-link property which is either an Ethernet MAC driver or a DSA's switch port node. -- Florian
