From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Alexandre Bounine <Alexandre.Bounine@tundra.com>,
linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: Fix problems with Holly's DT representation of ethernet PHYs
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 11:13:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e14fb6736fbd0b77774ce10417d627d@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070524055909.GG20078@localhost.localdomain>
>> Is the compatible really need here? We are able to provide and bind
>> drivers based on MII_PHYSID1/2. I don't see what putting the
>> compatible proper gets us.
>
> That's a good point (except that having a node without compatible is
> kind of odd).
Not really; "compatible" is for the cases where "name"
alone isn't enough.
> At the moment the code which instantiates the platform
> device looks at compatible to enable a workaround. But actually that
> workaround is holly specific, rather than related to the PHY model,
> and so should be encoded differently.
There is no real value in encoding it in the device
tree, even.
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-24 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-24 4:16 Fix problems with Holly's DT representation of ethernet PHYs David Gibson
2007-05-24 4:22 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-24 5:59 ` David Gibson
2007-05-24 9:13 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2007-05-24 13:44 ` Josh Boyer
2007-05-25 4:23 ` David Gibson
2007-05-25 4:37 ` David Gibson
2007-05-25 4:38 ` David Gibson
2007-05-25 14:03 ` Josh Boyer
2007-05-27 23:36 ` David Gibson
2007-05-25 14:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-27 23:30 ` David Gibson
2007-05-28 1:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-28 11:07 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-28 11:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-28 11:06 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-29 4:47 ` David Gibson
2007-05-24 9:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-24 13:45 ` Josh Boyer
2007-05-25 2:04 ` David Gibson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-29 6:05 David Gibson
2007-05-29 6:43 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-29 14:19 ` Josh Boyer
2007-05-29 14:49 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-29 19:29 ` Josh Boyer
2007-05-30 11:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-30 11:32 ` David Gibson
2007-05-30 11:36 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-30 13:48 ` Josh Boyer
2007-05-30 15:28 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-31 5:54 ` Zang Roy-r61911
2007-05-30 1:26 ` David Gibson
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