From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Wood Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] powerpc/corenet: Add DPAA FMan support to the SoC device tree(s) Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 18:14:02 -0500 Message-ID: <1399504442.15726.353.camel@snotra.buserror.net> References: <1397823693-27977-1-git-send-email-Shruti@Freescale.com> <1397823693-27977-5-git-send-email-Shruti@Freescale.com> <1398118442.1694.190.camel__272.432543761347$1398129129$gmane$org@snotra.buserror.net> <53661DAB.10808@Freescale.com> <1399332886.15726.161.camel@snotra.buserror.net> <5368811A.3060609@Freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5368811A.3060609-eDlz3WWmN0ll57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Emil Medve Cc: Kanetkar Shruti-B44454 , devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, "linuxppc-dev-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 01:28 -0500, Emil Medve wrote: > Hello Scott, > > > On 05/05/2014 06:34 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > > On Sun, 2014-05-04 at 05:59 -0500, Emil Medve wrote: > >> Anyway, most days PHYs can be discovered so they don't use/need > >> compatible properties. That's I guess part of the reason we don't have > >> bindings for them PHY nodes > > > > I don't see why there couldn't be a compatible that describes the > > standard programming interface. > > Because it can be detected at runtime and I guess stuff like that should > stay out of the device tree. I'm using PCI as an analogy here But in this case aren't you using a standardized component of the programming model itself to probe the specific PHY type? I think a better analogy is the "cfi-flash" compatible. -Scott -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html