From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC][RFC] MPC8360E-RDK: Device tree and board file
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:39:19 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071218223919.GC12254@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4767F271.4090703@freescale.com>
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:16:49AM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> David Gibson wrote:
> > In this case the driver and binding have been developed together and
> > for the time being it does require PHY nodes, obviously. I'm saying
> > that maybe that requirement ought to be changed.
>
> I don't see why.
>
> > Well, phandle is only used to find the phy node itself, so it doesn't
> > count. The only piece of information there is the reg - the PHY id.
> > Following a phandle to another node is a fairly complex way of finding
> > a single integer.
> >
> > Eh, I guess it's ok, but just directly giving the PHY id or a probe
> > mask in the MAC node would also be fine (we do this for 4xx EMAC).
>
> It's not just a simple integer -- it also tells you which mdio bus
> it's on.
Ah, good point. Ok, I withdraw my complaints.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-18 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-10 20:29 [PATCH] [POWERPC][RFC] MPC8360E-RDK: Device tree and board file Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-11 0:30 ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-12-11 17:19 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-11 18:42 ` Kumar Gala
2007-12-15 16:23 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-17 5:14 ` David Gibson
2007-12-17 17:03 ` Scott Wood
2007-12-17 17:10 ` Kim Phillips
2007-12-17 17:20 ` Scott Wood
2007-12-17 17:42 ` Kim Phillips
2007-12-17 18:26 ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-12-17 18:48 ` Scott Wood
2007-12-17 20:55 ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-12-18 3:51 ` David Gibson
2007-12-18 16:16 ` Scott Wood
2007-12-18 16:51 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-18 22:39 ` David Gibson [this message]
2007-12-19 13:05 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-19 16:15 ` Scott Wood
2007-12-19 16:36 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-19 20:59 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-18 15:53 ` Kumar Gala
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