From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch (vps0.lunn.ch [156.67.10.101]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E6F8D1D6DA9; Fri, 7 Aug 2026 19:16:55 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1786130217; cv=none; b=ewtLCa/QlaW9PKgi+xGwGACYH9EUOhUBxtJA1v7U5qxFuPpRZp8/9uEMbM5novI+/KFXkajw3mVTYu+Ba2TCQPyfjKllx3hToMUjrz5xQOWZWU1qtZ1yu5oMxsZDUtWN/K4A/RUfkuF6eQEoz55bVs2knMmkQS6ku6gETr1jR5k= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1786130217; c=relaxed/simple; bh=7Zh3BEABkFIdEcXRxO12XmgTpQfa58TTt2MYaGG9yBE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=B8NcgGnEhfdLQuD2cU4qL1SpPGlOkSfMoj/4VpKDJDK3fDHRE5zRw22DqXmeUZa/vYc9VHNHfY1vdtUjU6aeCJz37GK/RQl1j9rtP5oIHY+E02MMRZbYSGckcS+DxSS8N0Z0SsLbhR5wjkopAtqNlQox2QjOIYd9mVKlVOuU/nc= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b=jdZ55W7Q; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b="jdZ55W7Q" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lunn.ch; s=20171124; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition: Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:From: Sender:Reply-To:Subject:Date:Message-ID:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Content-Disposition: In-Reply-To:References; bh=NZTPP46mEG0ybtXZ7y56NJi9fDk2qf7dIZJTJzYdJCA=; b=jd Z55W7QXZ7pSD2rEhznONNqrOrdtGj8TNOX3LlaKoujtnJYgiQpriWY3O4STdeDbrpZXst2mWGiQSN LpoMKRE0XNG/6U6IpU0n1IQbufczmPjF/F0ITvK6Ilp14Ic7Pi27jRDvW6VBNaGX+FTrhjVAjuz2t 1LpVUFhg5Co2SOU=; Received: from andrew by vps0.lunn.ch with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1wsQ38-00GdFs-9p; Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:16:10 +0200 Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 21:16:10 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn To: James Hilliard Cc: Heiner Kallweit , Russell King , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Florian Fainelli , Richard Cochran , Rob Herring , Saravana Kannan , Florian Fainelli , Jonas Gorski , Vladimir Oltean , Ciprian Regus , Andreas Larsson , Mark Einon , Iyappan Subramanian , Keyur Chudgar , Michael Chan , =?utf-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= , Broadcom internal kernel review list , Doug Berger , Pavan Chebbi , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Th=E9o?= Lebrun , Conor Dooley , Wei Fang , Frank Li , Shenwei Wang , Jijie Shao , Jian Shen , Bryan Whitehead , UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com, Vladimir Zapolskiy , Piotr Wojtaszczyk , Parthiban Veerasooran , Timur Tabi , nic_swsd@realtek.com, Byungho An , Steve Glendinning , Maxime Chevallier , Maxime Coquelin , Alexandre Torgue , FUJITA Tomonori , Siddharth Vadapalli , Roger Quadros , Jiawen Wu , Mengyuan Lou , Thangaraj Samynathan , Sebastian Reichel , Simon Horman , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, imx@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/4] net: mdio: support dynamic OF device changes Message-ID: <3cd188e7-7dc4-4d67-82de-e2ef3edee232@lunn.ch> References: <20260806-submit-mdio-of-dynamic-v2-v4-0-4beb0c50d5ba@gmail.com> <4aeebecb-81fe-4f09-9dfe-a3be2f778bb8@lunn.ch> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: devicetree@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 12:48:43PM -0600, James Hilliard wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2026 at 11:15 AM Andrew Lunn wrote: > > > > > I guess it can also be used like this for live dt modification: > > > > A guess is not good enough. Give us a concrete, in kernel use cases. > > I searched the current tree for callers of the OF changeset and > overlay APIs and for OF reconfiguration notifiers. I did not find a > current in-tree path which adds or removes a child below an already > registered MDIO bus. So lets wait for a real user to come along. Andrew