linux-kernel - RE: stmmac regression on ASUS TinkerBoard

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jun 2019 07:46:12 +0000
From:   Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com>
To:     Katsuhiro Suzuki <katsuhiro@...suster.net>,
        Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: stmmac regression on ASUS TinkerBoard

From: Katsuhiro Suzuki <katsuhiro@...suster.net>

> I checked drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c and found
> stmmac_init_phy() is going to fail if ethernet device node does not
> have following property:
>    - phy-handle
>    - phy
>    - phy-device
> 
> This commit broke the device-trees such as TinkerBoard. The mdio
> subnode creating a mdio bus is changed to required or still optional?

Yeah, with PHYLINK the PHY binding is always required ...

How do you want to proceed ? I think DT bindings can never break between 
releases so I will probably need to cook a patch for stmmac.

Thanks,
Jose Miguel Abreu