From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch (vps0.lunn.ch [156.67.10.101]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 446DF42AF95; Fri, 7 Aug 2026 13:16:41 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1786108609; cv=none; b=hWYjO8Sbu2QJ9Smwk5tpwp0YmUErF/XC9OV57x5d/lLFeKbf7hLL/g3aH/QfxPFKk+aXmcid15BVeeMbyfC5uY4yKZm0tuo678cxtzY1EL1QwiCaVW1nMKXO70Q54uchC1ezD7Ly76O4YM7VQePwzfMzxpB2bHJCdHKoNWSYjXM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1786108609; c=relaxed/simple; bh=275TKm/AQkopBHdkuCASW4g5iuoN/RumyTuzpPTV1hM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=CXVekynKQmGeIby6YeYYeqtJsR2AIyNUP8EfoD2nu46QS2E//1OyiNSjX+Qb5OEronpRyd9rq9NC0kvIaLgeVobcGZEjYT8xMkgZULHB2bndRUnshX80AI9DpsFiT5nsUrA9c7NdtUgQ34o0Xl9QJcHYsVu6kqIAc1UAb8WPmho= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b=Whe+yB5E; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b="Whe+yB5E" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lunn.ch; s=20171124; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Disposition:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:From:Sender:Reply-To:Subject: Date:Message-ID:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:References; bh=+UWe1yX17cQB95ay+ZQVnMP9BDbpBIsEUhuX6QM+s5k=; b=Whe+yB5EzI7EwATAG4Fcqi+MVA 1pbi7YHrp2BcRjzSXdZeMLPCt0+KAnR7GC/mWBOksTVDZmIiDTUhGJXF+vxK6JpmUTeY33Oel/4il bXO7Xw2qYhMpUJU2Wtd//FmZJnTBd6PBAk1Bff+M9eJefIJp9rupik76288n4JScNOcY=; Received: from andrew by vps0.lunn.ch with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1wsKQB-00GZWU-M9; Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:15:35 +0200 Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 15:15:35 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn To: James Hilliard Cc: Heiner Kallweit , Russell King , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Florian Fainelli , Richard Cochran , Rob Herring , Saravana Kannan , Florian Fainelli , Jonas Gorski , Vladimir Oltean , Ciprian Regus , Andreas Larsson , Mark Einon , Iyappan Subramanian , Keyur Chudgar , Michael Chan , =?utf-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= , Broadcom internal kernel review list , Doug Berger , Pavan Chebbi , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Th=E9o?= Lebrun , Conor Dooley , Wei Fang , Frank Li , Shenwei Wang , Jijie Shao , Jian Shen , Bryan Whitehead , UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com, Vladimir Zapolskiy , Piotr Wojtaszczyk , Parthiban Veerasooran , Timur Tabi , nic_swsd@realtek.com, Byungho An , Steve Glendinning , Maxime Chevallier , Maxime Coquelin , Alexandre Torgue , FUJITA Tomonori , Siddharth Vadapalli , Roger Quadros , Jiawen Wu , Mengyuan Lou , Thangaraj Samynathan , Sebastian Reichel , Simon Horman , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, imx@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/4] net: mdio: support dynamic OF device changes Message-ID: References: <20260806-submit-mdio-of-dynamic-v2-v4-0-4beb0c50d5ba@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260806-submit-mdio-of-dynamic-v2-v4-0-4beb0c50d5ba@gmail.com> On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 09:54:19PM -0600, James Hilliard wrote: > MDIO buses enumerate firmware children only when the bus is registered. A > later devicetree overlay or status transition is ignored, unlike on I2C and > SPI buses. Supporting live reconfiguration also means that population and > removal can race address scanning, PHY attachment and bus teardown. Please make the bootloader work around the issues, and drop this patchset. Andrew