netdev - Re: [PATCH] of: mdio: Support fixed links in of_phy_get_and

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Date:   Sun, 12 Aug 2018 19:24:14 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Laurent Pinchart <Laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: mdio: Support fixed links in of_phy_get_and_connect()

> It's confusing, I guess these PHY's don't come and go
> very much so the plug/play part isn't really exercised.

Very true. We sometimes need to handle -EPROBE_DEFER, which is not too
different from hot-plugging PHYs. Also, SFP modules are hot-pluggable,
and can contain a copper PHY. However, SFP modules don't have a
traditional MIDO bus. MDIO is tunnelled over i2c. So when a copper SFP
module is hotplugged, the MDIO bus is hot plugged as well.

If you do decided to make any changes here, please ask Russell King to
test, otherwise you might break this use case.

      Andrew