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From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/4] dt-bindings: net: phy: add MaxLinear
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> The real answer here is add a compatible. But I'm tired of pointing this 
> out to the networking maintainers every damn time. Ethernet PHYs are not 
> special.

I agree, they are the same as USB and PCI, and other enumerable
busses. The enumeration data tells you what the device is. That is how
the kernel finds the correct driver for the device, nothing special at
all for PHYs.

	Andrew