netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] net: qcom/emac: add phy-handle support for ACPI

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Date:   Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:13:01 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     "Wang, Dongsheng" <dongsheng.wang@...-semitech.com>
Cc:     Timur Tabi <timur@...nel.org>,
        "Zheng, Joey" <yu.zheng@...-semitech.com>,
        "f.fainelli@...il.com" <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "robert.moore@...el.com" <robert.moore@...el.com>,
        "rjw@...ysocki.net" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        "linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] net: qcom/emac: add phy-handle support for ACPI

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 03:04:25AM +0000, Wang, Dongsheng wrote:
> On 2018/10/26 10:37, Timur Tabi wrote:
> > On 10/25/18 9:18 PM, Wang, Dongsheng wrote:
> >> But when I was reading Documentation/acpi/DSD-properties-rules.txt, my
> >> understanding is we should try to conform to DT bindings. So maybe ACPI
> >> doesn't have such a document, just DT bindings.
> > There was an attempt to document DSDs, but it was abandoned after a while.
> >
> > https://github.com/ahs3/dsd
> >
> 
> Yes, here's a database concept, and I asked some Intel guys, the answer
> I got was there is no such database or document. :(

Hi Dongsheng

If there is no clear documentation for ACPI, it becomes even more
important that the xgene code is refactored into a central location,
and you make use of it. We really need to avoid every ACPI ethernet
driver doing its own thing.

       Thanks
	Andrew