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On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:16:52PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> The MAC drivers are clients of this device. They then use a phandle
> and specifier:
> 
> 	eth0: ethernet-controller@72000 {
> 		compatible = "marvell,kirkwood-eth";
> 		#address-cells = <1>;
> 		#size-cells = <0>;
> 		reg = <0x72000 0x4000>;
> 
> 		timerstamper = <&timestamper 2>
> 	}
> 
> The 2 indicates this MAC is using port 2.
> 
> The MAC driver can then do the standard device tree things to follow
> the phandle to get access to the device and use the API it exports.

But that would require hacking every last MAC driver.

I happy to improve the modeling, but the solution should be generic
and work for every MAC driver.

Thanks,
Richard