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From: Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: mugunthanvnm <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: davinci_mdio: Use of_mdiobus_register()
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 18:51:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5369131A.1020908@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGVrzcYH2BXTQ7bM_usz=ZuiAoU8PfNWVtDsxb6ONBxEimhDgw@mail.gmail.com>

On 05/06/2014 06:42 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 2014-05-06 8:18 GMT-07:00 Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com>:
>> of_mdiobus_register() calls mdiobus_register() internally, so the
>> functionality is preserved. However, by calling the of_ variant, phy
>> nodes can be augmented with extra information.
> 
> Are there any non Device Tree aware platforms using this driver?
> of_mdiobus_register() is an empty stub returning -ENOSYS when
> CONFIG_OF is not set, maybe we should make it return
> mdiobus_register() instead...

Ah, good point. Yes, what you propose seems like a valid fix. I'll send
a patch for that.


Thanks,
Daniel

      reply	other threads:[~2014-05-06 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-06 15:18 [PATCH] net: davinci_mdio: Use of_mdiobus_register() Daniel Mack
2014-05-06 16:42 ` Florian Fainelli
2014-05-06 16:51   ` Daniel Mack [this message]

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