linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] net: altera-tse: Don't use netdev name for the PCS mdio bus

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Message-ID: <89b97635-1e3a-489b-be99-67c76c46ca23@lunn.ch>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:17:37 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, davem@...emloft.net,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
	Boon Khai Ng <boon.khai.ng@...era.com>,
	Alexis Lothoré <alexis.lothore@...tlin.com>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] net: altera-tse: Don't use netdev name for
 the PCS mdio bus

On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 11:24:16AM +0100, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> The PCS mdio bus must be created before registering the net_device. To
> do that, we musn't depend on the netdev name to create the mdio bus
> name. Let's use the device's name instead.

The name does appear in /sys/bus/mdiobus, so there is a potential for
ABI breakage. But it seems unlikely.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew