netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: of_mdio: scan mdiobus for PHYs without reg property

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Message-Id: <20130408.165655.1503589676064125796.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:56:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com
Cc:	grant.likely@...retlab.ca, rob.herring@...xeda.com,
	florian@...nwrt.org, devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: of_mdio: scan mdiobus for PHYs without reg
 property

From: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>
Date: Sun,  7 Apr 2013 13:09:48 +0200

> Using DT for mdiobus and ethernet-phy requires to know the PHY address, which
> is hard to guess if you don't know it. This patch extends of_mdiobus_register
> to scan mdiobus for PHYs if reg property of the corresponding node is not set.
> This also allows to have phy nodes in SoC DT files where the reg property can
> be overwritten in the board file later. To encourage people to finally set the
> actual phy address, the mdiobus scan is noisier than required.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>

Applied.
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