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Message-ID: <20250717070204.66e34588@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:02:04 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Primoz Fiser <primoz.fiser@...ik.com>
Cc: Wei Fang <wei.fang@....com>, Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@....com>, Clark
 Wang <xiaoning.wang@....com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
 davem@...emloft.net, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>, Alexandre
 Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>, imx@...ts.linux.dev,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
 linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, upstream@...ts.phytec.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Populate of_node for i.MX netdevs

On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:00:35 +0200 Primoz Fiser wrote:
> Recently when working on predictable network names for i.MX SoCs, it
> was discovered that of_node sysfs properties are missing for FEC and
> EQOS interfaces.
> 
> Without this, udev is unable to expose the OF_* properties (OF_NAME,
> OF_FULLNAME, OF_COMPATIBLE, OF_ALIAS, etc.) and thus we cannot identify
> interface based on those properties.
> 
> Fix this by populating netdev of_node in respective drivers.

Seems legit, but would be good to CC Open Firmware maintainers.

If we want to make propagating the OF linkage a think I think we should
add a flavor of SET_NETDEV_DEV() which does that for the caller.
SET_NETDEV_DEV_OF() ?
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