netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] dt-bindings: net: Add bindings for Realtek PHYs

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Message-ID: <20190708211348.GA17857@lunn.ch>
Date:   Mon, 8 Jul 2019 23:13:48 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] dt-bindings: net: Add bindings for Realtek PHYs

On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 01:01:36PM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 09:46:15PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 12:24:53PM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > > Add the 'realtek,eee-led-mode-disable' property to disable EEE
> > > LED mode on Realtek PHYs that support it.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
> > > ---
> > > TODO: adapt PHY core to deal with optional compatible strings
> > 
> > Yes. Does this even work at the moment? I would expect
> > of_mdiobus_child_is_phy() to return false, indicating the device is
> > not actually a PHY.
> 
> Indeed, it currently doesn't work atm. I found that removing the check
> for dev->of_node in of_mdiobus_link_mdiodev() helps, but I imagine
> doing (only) this might have undesired side-effects.

O.K.

Please put RFC in patches like this which don't actually work and so
should not be merged. We don't want David accidentally merging them!

       Andrew