netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net] phy: micrel: Fix finding PHY properties in MAC node.

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Date:	Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:32:15 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	andrew@...n.ch
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, f.fainelli@...il.com,
	dinguyen@...nsource.altera.com, david.daney@...ium.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net] phy: micrel: Fix finding PHY properties in MAC
 node.

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Date: Wed,  9 Dec 2015 19:56:31 +0100

> commit 8b63ec1837fa ("phylib: Make PHYs children of their MDIO bus,
> not the bus' parent.")  changed the parenting of PHY devices, making
> them a child of the MDIO bus, instead of the MAC device. This broken
> the Micrel PHY driver which has a deprecated feature of allowing PHY
> properties to be placed into the MAC node.
> 
> In order to find the MAC node, we need to walk up the tree of devices
> until we find one with an OF node attached.
> 
> Reported-by: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...nsource.altera.com>
> Suggested-by: David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
> Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
> Fixes: 8b63ec1837fa ("phylib: Make PHYs children of their MDIO bus, not the bus' parent.")
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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