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Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 00:36:10 +0100 From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> Cc: netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/2] DT MDIO bus of fixed phys On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 03:26:42PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: > On 11/03/16 15:08, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > Currently, supporting a fixed-phy in a MAC driver is a bit messy. It > > needs to be explicit supported, since a fixed phy is somewhat > > different from a normal phy. > > > > These two patches solve this by making fixed-phys appear as normal > > PHYs within device tree, allowing them to be referenced by a phandle. > > Any MAC driver that supports phy-handle can then automatically support > > a fixed-phy without any code change. > > Humm, if that's the problem we want to solve, we could introduce a > helper function which tries to locate the phy using a 'phy-handle' > property I don't follow you. Where do you get a phandle from to use with phy-handle? Andrew
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