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On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 05:01 -0500, Xie Xiaobo-R63061 wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> 
> Thanks for your reminding and advice.
> 
> I discuss this with Liu Shengzhou(the first person that remind me
> #interrupt-cells is 4), he advised removing the interrupts property
> from the phy node, because the mdio used the poll way preferentially.

I don't follow... if the PHYs have interrupts, why would we prefer to
poll?

In any case, the device tree describes the hardware, not how you'd
prefer to use it.

-Scott