[PATCH 3/3] ARM: zynq: DT: Add Ethernet phys
Jason Gunthorpe
jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Fri Aug 22 09:20:48 PDT 2014
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 08:49:19AM -0700, Sören Brinkmann wrote:
> So my thinkings:
> - the compatible string with the -c22 is used and documented in the phy
> bindings, it should be there.
Yes
> - the ID based strings seem to be not needed since, IIUC, the core
> reads the ID from the PHY and uses it, so I just left it out not
> trying to figure out how to obtain the correct ID
It is certainly optional, I added the property to solve some obscure
problems with probing, but I've noticed people using it more broadly.
I suspect it also speeds up booting a tiny bit.
> - the marvell compatible strings are used in our vendor tree. They
> aren't used anywhere but in our vendor tree. I though keeping them is
> nice since it identifies the PHY fully. And in case that level of
> detail is needed at some point it is already there.
DT is complex enough already, don't include useless compatible strings
in mainline - people will see and tend to blindly copy. Ideally your
vendor tree would use the standard property :|
Jason
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