Re: [PATCH v2 3.7.0-rc4] of/net/mdio-gpio: Fix pdev->id issue when using devicetrees.

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Srinivas KANDAGATLA <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:33:59 +0000

> From: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com>
> 
> When the mdio-gpio driver is probed via device trees, the platform
> device id is set as -1, However the pdev->id is re-used as bus-id for
> while creating mdio gpio bus.
> So
> For device tree case the mdio-gpio bus name appears as "gpio-ffffffff"
> where as
> for non-device tree case the bus name appears as "gpio-<bus-num>"
> 
> Which means the bus_id is fixed in device tree case, so we can't have
> two mdio gpio buses via device trees. Assigning a logical bus number
> via device tree solves the problem and the bus name is much consistent
> with non-device tree bus name.
> 
> Without this patch
> 1. we can't support two mdio-gpio buses via device trees.
> 2. we should always pass gpio-ffffffff as bus name to phy_connect, very
> different to non-device tree bus name.
> 
> So, setting up the bus_id via aliases from device tree is the right
> solution and other drivers do similar thing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com>

Applied, thank you.