[PATCH net-next 3/4] net: altera-tse: Don't use netdev name for the PCS mdio bus
Andrew Lunn
andrew at lunn.ch
Fri Oct 31 09:17:37 PDT 2025
On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 11:24:16AM +0100, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> The PCS mdio bus must be created before registering the net_device. To
> do that, we musn't depend on the netdev name to create the mdio bus
> name. Let's use the device's name instead.
The name does appear in /sys/bus/mdiobus, so there is a potential for
ABI breakage. But it seems unlikely.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>
Andrew
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