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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
Cc: hkallweit1@gmail.com, linux@armlinux.org.uk,
	peppe.cavallaro@st.com, alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com,
	joabreu@synopsys.com, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] net: mdio: Mask PHY only when its ACPI node is present
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:40:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YmFCxnYdRnnk41QQ@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAd53p5Wwn+HOMm1Z0VWcR_WrTzRvAGZOYg4X_txugSFd+EsDQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 10:58:40AM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 10:47 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 08:40:48PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> > > Not all PHY has an ACPI node, for those nodes auto probing is still
> > > needed.
> >
> > Why do you need this?
> >
> > Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/dsd/phy.rst
> >
> > There is nothing here about there being PHYs which are not listed in
> > ACPI. If you have decided to go the ACPI route, you need to list the
> > PHYs.
> 
> This is for backward-compatibility. MAC can have ACPI node but PHY may
> not have one.

And if the PHY does not have an ACPI node, fall back to
mdiobus_register(). This is what of_mdiobus_register() does. If
np=NULL, it calls mdiobus_register() and skips all the OF stuff.

	 Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-21 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20220420124053.853891-1-kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
2022-04-20 12:40 ` [PATCH 1/5] net: mdio: Mask PHY only when its ACPI node is present Kai-Heng Feng
2022-04-20 14:47   ` Andrew Lunn
2022-04-21  2:58     ` Kai-Heng Feng
2022-04-21 11:40       ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2022-04-21 12:18         ` Kai-Heng Feng
2022-04-20 12:40 ` [PATCH 2/5] net: mdio: Add "use-firmware-led" firmware property Kai-Heng Feng
2022-04-20 13:01   ` Andrew Lunn
2022-04-21  3:15     ` Kai-Heng Feng
2022-04-20 12:40 ` [PATCH 3/5] net: phy: Add helpers to save and restore firmware LED Kai-Heng Feng
2022-04-20 12:40 ` [PATCH 4/5] net: phy: marvell: Add LED accessors for Marvell 88E1510 Kai-Heng Feng
2022-04-20 15:03   ` Andrew Lunn
2022-04-21  3:11     ` Kai-Heng Feng
2022-04-21 11:51       ` Andrew Lunn
2022-04-21 12:24         ` Kai-Heng Feng
2022-04-21 12:57           ` Andrew Lunn
2022-04-22  3:49             ` Kai-Heng Feng
2022-04-20 12:40 ` [PATCH 5/5] net: stmmac: Use acpi_mdiobus_register() for ACPI based system Kai-Heng Feng

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