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Message-Id: <20140217.141141.1113256967002583742.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:11:41 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mark.rutland@....com
Cc:	ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk, f.fainelli@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-sh@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add init-regs for of_phy support

From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:04:15 +0000

> If you update the DTs to describe the hardware to the kernel, then the
> kernel can later be updated to handle specific PHYs better. That cannot
> happen if you try to hide information from the kernel by giving it a
> list of arbitrary magic numbers.
> 
> Drivers are the place such things should go. The DT is not a place for
> shoddy bytecode.

+1
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