linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: mdio: of: Do not treat fixed-link as PHY

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Message-ID: <20200331125908.GB24486@lunn.ch>
Date:   Tue, 31 Mar 2020 14:59:08 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Codrin.Ciubotariu@...rochip.com
Cc:     f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        hkallweit1@...il.com, linux@...linux.org.uk, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mdio: of: Do not treat fixed-link as PHY

> Thanks guys. I thought there might be other controllers that have the 
> PHY nodes inside the ethernet node.

Hi Codrin

There are some still using this deprecated feature. But macb is the
only one doing this odd looping over child nodes. It is this looping
which is breaking things, not the use of the deprecated feature
itself.

	Andrew