netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] phy dp83867: Make rgmii parameters optional

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Date:	Tue, 17 May 2016 14:48:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dmurphy@...com
Cc:	agraf@...e.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, michal.simek@...inx.com,
	andrew@...n.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] phy dp83867: Make rgmii parameters optional

From: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@...com>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 13:34:34 -0500

> David
> 
> On 05/17/2016 01:22 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
>> Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 20:52:43 +0200
>>
>>> If you compile without OF_MDIO support in an RGMII configuration, we fail
>>> to configure the dp83867 phy today by writing garbage into its configuration
>>> registers.
>>>
>>> On the other hand if you do compile with OF_MDIO and the phy gets loaded via
>>> device tree, you have to have the properties set in the device tree, otherwise
>>> we fail to load the driver and don't even attach the generic phy driver to
>>> the interface anymore.
>>>
>>> To make things slightly more consistent, make the rgmii configuration properties
>>> optional and allow a user to omit them in their device tree.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
>> Applied.
> 
> This patch should not have been applied.
> 
> I did not believe the implementation was proper for that driver.
> 
> It seems my objection to the code was not seen.  Nor was Andrew's point about the DT bindings document
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9105371/

The discussions around the recent phy patches have been a labrynth that I've
found hard to follow, sorry.

I'll revert these two, sigh....