[PATCH v3 3/4] net: stmmac: register parent MDIO node for sun8i-h3-emac

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Mon Aug 21 06:31:04 PDT 2017


Hi Andrew,

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 03:20:15PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > With our hardware, and likely Rockchip's as well, the muxed connections
> > include the MDIO and MII connections
> 
> Ah, i did not realise the MII was muxed as well. Then i agree, an MDIO
> mux is wrong.
> 
> However, please try to make the binding not look like an mdio mux. We
> don't want people misunderstanding the binding and thinking it is an
> mdio mux.

Do you have any suggestion on what the binding would look like?

All muxes are mostly always represented the same way afaik, or do you
want to simply introduce a new compatible / property?

Thanks!
Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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