From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] netdev/of/phy: MDIO bus multiplexer support. Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 17:09:10 -0500 Message-ID: <4FB6C886.3050105@freescale.com> References: <1336007799-31016-1-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> <4FB6C728.3090507@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4FB6C728.3090507@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org To: David Daney Cc: "devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org David Daney wrote: >> > I'm not sure what the "parent" MDIO bus node is supposed to represent. >> > Is that that device that actually controls the muxing hardware > No. It is the device that implements the master 802.3 clause {22,45} > MDIO Station Management (STA) protocol. Ah, I think I get it. It is *the* MDIO node that would normally exist if muxing we're necessary on the board. From the looks of it, that node would look exactly the same if you didn't need muxing? -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale