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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next RFC V1 5/5] net: mdio: Add a driver for InES
 time stamping IP core.
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 08:02:04 -0700
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On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 03:13:19PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> Have you tried implementing it using a phandle in the phy node,
> pointing to the time stamping device?

Not yet, but I'll take this up for V2, after the merge window...

Thinking about MII, it really is a 1:1 connection between the MAC and
the PHY.  It has no representation in the current code, at least not
yet.  It is too bad about the naming of mii_bus, oh well.  While
hanging this thing off of the PHY isn't really great modeling (it
isn't a sub-device of the PHY in any sense), still this will work well
enough to enable the new functionality.

Thanks,
Richard