On 01/25/2018 09:59 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
I expect we will implement something like acpi_mdiobus_register(), and it will take a pointer to an ACPI node. And maybe on top of of_mdiobus_register() and of_mdiobus_register() we will add a device_mdiobus_register().
Makes sense. If you remember, please CC me on any patches.
What i'm trying to avoid is drivers ending up with different ACPI bindings. If you don't want to add an ACPI node/property then no problems, just don't expect to be able to use any of the optional features of the MDIO core, like the GPIOs for reset.
Well, if a new binding is created, we will update our ACPI tables and drivers use it. But we may need to keep the legacy code in emac-phy.c for backwards compatibility with older firmware.
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