[PATCH net-next v2 00/10] define and enforce phylink bindings

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Fri Sep 22 15:44:30 PDT 2023


> However, to dress this up as "phylink requires xyz, so lets create
> a phylink binding description" is just wrong.

+1

Also, phylink is a Linux implementation detail. Other OSes using the
binding don't need to have phylink. Yet they can still use the DT
blobs because they should describe the hardware, independent of how
the OS drives that hardware.

    Andrew



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