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On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:00 PM, David Gibson
<david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> As Grant says, you're thinking about what drivers will do with things
> rather than what the actual hardware setup is, which is what the
> device tree should describe.
>
> I see two sensible options for this situation:
>        - Move the MDIO node to outside the gianfar MAC node.  I think
> this is already done on some boards with gianfar?

mpc5200 FEC is another example of this.

>        - Explicitly add the gianfar device to the list of things to
> scan for of_platform subdevices.

Ack.  I 100% agree.

g.

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