From: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumensti...@googlemail.com> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 17:41:32 +0100
> The old description basically read like "ethernet-phy-idAAAA.BBBB" can > be specified when you know the actual PHY ID. However, specifying this > has a side-effect: it forces Linux to bind to a certain PHY driver (the > one that matches the ID given in the compatible string), ignoring the ID > which is reported by the actual PHY. > Whenever a device is shipped with (multiple) different PHYs during it's > production lifetime then explicitly specifying > "ethernet-phy-idAAAA.BBBB" could break certain revisions of that device. > > Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumensti...@googlemail.com> > --- > Thanks to Andrew Lunn for pointing the documentation issue out to me in: > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-amlogic/2017-January/002141.html Applied.
