From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
Kanetkar Shruti-B44454 <Shruti@Freescale.com>,
"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] powerpc/corenet: Add DPAA FMan support to the SoC device tree(s)
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 18:14:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1399504442.15726.353.camel@snotra.buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5368811A.3060609@Freescale.com>
On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 01:28 -0500, Emil Medve wrote:
> Hello Scott,
>
>
> On 05/05/2014 06:34 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> > On Sun, 2014-05-04 at 05:59 -0500, Emil Medve wrote:
> >> Anyway, most days PHYs can be discovered so they don't use/need
> >> compatible properties. That's I guess part of the reason we don't have
> >> bindings for them PHY nodes
> >
> > I don't see why there couldn't be a compatible that describes the
> > standard programming interface.
>
> Because it can be detected at runtime and I guess stuff like that should
> stay out of the device tree. I'm using PCI as an analogy here
But in this case aren't you using a standardized component of the
programming model itself to probe the specific PHY type? I think a
better analogy is the "cfi-flash" compatible.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-07 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-18 12:21 [PATCH 1/6] powerpc/corenet: Enable muxing MDIO buses via GPIO Shruti Kanetkar
2014-04-18 12:21 ` [PATCH 2/6] powerpc/corenet: Enable muxing MDIO buses via FPGA Shruti Kanetkar
2014-04-18 12:21 ` [PATCH 3/6] net/fsl_pq_mdio: Document supported compatibles Shruti Kanetkar
2014-04-18 12:21 ` [PATCH 4/6] powerpc/corenet: Create the dts components for the DPAA FMan Shruti Kanetkar
2014-04-21 22:11 ` Scott Wood
[not found] ` <1398118262.1694.188.camel__8135.6513932862$1398128944$gmane$org@snotra.buserror.net>
2014-05-03 10:02 ` Emil Medve
2014-05-05 23:25 ` Scott Wood
2014-05-06 5:54 ` Emil Medve
2014-05-07 2:54 ` Scott Wood
2014-05-08 3:23 ` Emil Medve
2014-05-08 3:36 ` Scott Wood
2014-05-08 4:31 ` Emil Medve
2014-04-18 12:21 ` [PATCH 5/6] powerpc/corenet: Add DPAA FMan support to the SoC device tree(s) Shruti Kanetkar
2014-04-21 22:14 ` Scott Wood
[not found] ` <1398118442.1694.190.camel__272.432543761347$1398129129$gmane$org@snotra.buserror.net>
2014-05-04 10:59 ` Emil Medve
2014-05-05 23:34 ` Scott Wood
2014-05-06 6:28 ` Emil Medve
2014-05-06 7:40 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2014-05-07 23:14 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2014-05-08 5:18 ` Emil Medve
2014-04-18 12:21 ` [PATCH 6/6] powerpc/corenet: Add MDIO bus muxing support to the board " Shruti Kanetkar
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