> This looks fine, although I am not clear why we cannot utilize a > standard representation of a MDIO bus (with PHY devices as child nodes) > which has a specific compatible string, e.g: > marvell,mv88e6390-external-mdio, and that is a child node of the 6390 > Ethernet switch itself, something like:
Humm, interesting idea. I did not think of this, because the current code just looks for an mdio property, and does not care about any compatible string. I will think about this. Thanks Andrew