netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 11/13] net: dsa: sja1105: register the MDIO buses for 100base-T1 and 100base-TX

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Date:   Wed, 26 May 2021 14:52:08 +0300
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 11/13] net: dsa: sja1105: register the MDIO
 buses for 100base-T1 and 100base-TX

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 03:43:13PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Just to be clear, what is your suggestion for this? I am not a great fan
> > of 2 internal MDIO buses, but as mentioned, the PHY access procedure is
> > different for the 100base-TX and the 100base-T1 PHYs.
> 
> Do what the mv88e6xxx driver does. Have two busses, but do not put
> them into a container node. You then avoid issues with the yaml
> validater and not need the reg values etc.

It's funny, because marvell,mv88e6xxx-mdio-external is not covered by
any yaml schema, and even if it was, the "mdio1" node name would not
match the pattern "^mdio(@.*)?" required by mdio.yaml (which reads
'must be "mdio" or "mdio@...e number", and "mdio1" is neither of those).