linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] RFC: net: phy: of phys probe/reset issue

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Date:   Fri, 23 Oct 2020 22:10:46 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Roger Quadros <rogerq@...com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: net: phy: of phys probe/reset issue

> Yes there is: have your Ethernet PHY compatible string be of the form
> "ethernetAAAA.BBBB" and then there is no need for such hacking.
> of_get_phy_id() will parse that compatible and that will trigger
> of_mdiobus_register_phy() to take the phy_device_create() path.

Yep. That does seem like the cleanest way to do this. Let the PHY
driver deal with the resources it needs.

       Andrew