From: Brad Mouring <brad.mour...@ni.com> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:32:12 -0500
> Consider the situation where a macb netdev is connected through > a phydev that sits on a mii bus other than the one provided to > this particular netdev. This situation is what this patchset aims > to accomplish through the existing phy-handle optional binding. > > This optional binding (as described in the ethernet DT bindings doc) > directs the netdev to the phydev to use. This is precisely the > situation this patchset aims to solve, so it makes sense to introduce > the functionality to this driver (where the physical layout discussed > was encountered). > > The devicetree snippet would look something like this: ... > The work done to add the phy_node in the first place (dacdbb4dfc1a1: > "net: macb: add fixed-link node support") will consume the > device_node (if found). > > v2: Reorganization of mii probe/init functions, suggested by Andrew Lunn > v3: Moved some of the bus init code back into init (erroneously moved to > probe) > some style issues, and an unintialized variable warning addressed. > v4: Add Reviewed-by: tags > Skip fallback code if phy-handle phandle is found > v5: Cleanup formatting issues > Fix compile failure introduced in 1/4 "net: macb: Reorganize macb_mii > bringup" > Fix typo in "Documentation: macb: Document phy-handle binding" Series applied, thank you.
