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Message-ID: <YMjTDkJU58E3ITCJ@lunn.ch>
Date:   Tue, 15 Jun 2021 18:19:26 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Ioana Ciornei <ciorneiioana@...il.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        calvin.johnson@....nxp.com, hkallweit1@...il.com,
        linux@...linux.org.uk, Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mdio: mdiobus: setup of_node for the MDIO device

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 06:44:01PM +0300, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> From: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>
> 
> By mistake, the of_node of the MDIO device was not setup in the patch
> linked below. As a consequence, any PHY driver that depends on the
> of_node in its probe callback was not be able to successfully finish its
> probe on a PHY

Do you mean the PHY driver was looking for things like RGMII delays,
skew values etc?

If the PHY driver fails to load because of missing OF properties, i
guess this means the PHY driver will also fail in an ACPI system?

      Andrew