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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add init-regs for of_phy support
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:11:41 -0500 (EST)
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From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:04:15 +0000

> If you update the DTs to describe the hardware to the kernel, then the
> kernel can later be updated to handle specific PHYs better. That cannot
> happen if you try to hide information from the kernel by giving it a
> list of arbitrary magic numbers.
> 
> Drivers are the place such things should go. The DT is not a place for
> shoddy bytecode.

+1