linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "of: property: fw_devlink: Add support for "phy-handle" property"

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Date:   Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:14:37 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
Cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        kernel-team@...roid.com, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "of: property: fw_devlink: Add support for
 "phy-handle" property"

On Wed, 15 Sep 2021 01:19:32 -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> This reverts commit cf4b94c8530d14017fbddae26aad064ddc42edd4.
> 
> Some PHYs pointed to by "phy-handle" will never bind to a driver until a
> consumer attaches to it. And when the consumer attaches to it, they get
> forcefully bound to a generic PHY driver. In such cases, parsing the
> phy-handle property and creating a device link will prevent the consumer
> from ever probing. We don't want that. So revert support for
> "phy-handle" property until we come up with a better mechanism for
> binding PHYs to generic drivers before a consumer tries to attach to it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
> ---
>  drivers/of/property.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 

Applied, thanks!