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 A222C18E02A; Fri, 7 Aug 2026 15:10:47 +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=1786115449; cv=none; b=HHgTvx7w0bsmpTJ9294B2//PQH1c7aqCgVDmDwY3S7XYBNKyDz6+J3F/FeMO3+TZym7QiJPK0SMCYJqa5BkWZ5Aa1O+oqckqcIE2fPdoGkJnImzHgxnAlqQrJudBGSkpCyLlVG8g1+6o3e07+oVHUVSKS+I8tZvQiWfc9UJy75U= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1786115449; c=relaxed/simple; bh=1yWszZbFQQjy5C1YHsZV8+XVbrhQLckYcJ6CKb3IBfE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=phd93m6rOS4rkthQ1f+o66gbZBCzQduTqBLX7nqun2JwnWmxc5wTaMrwBxGflQXmlOqnSG22zAiIrYdH/RTjZOtJDsoxx9M4SI3V/lCB2Bxvm5bVHZ6lEjS864yDtdGJGy8CHbX7P2bcAwcBbcCfK/+UDKKYMwzYt7F1+uBb4qc= 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=c1UDuGl6; 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="c1UDuGl6" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lunn.ch; s=20171124; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: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=WHgB8YFjBK/5/ws3lTr1yEkaDaZeDUS13h1gRtKqgTM=; b=c1 UDuGl68/PHVEpKJhWEixzu5FszW5axt5eo5PwJPtaT0gZujGxUhbKsHfVgyZzsh7tRasHFgoXr4CC s8zwL7He9yfO8YvWMzasJCDurGcy9cxDPY/hmGxTGmP6Lp1eSkq8Vzy7wJInDhCse+0rSdnSN3ptJ JulP8w/cex9CpjE=; Received: from andrew by vps0.lunn.ch with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1wsMCs-00Gbis-9S; Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:09:58 +0200 Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 17:09:58 +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=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 08:59:47AM -0600, James Hilliard wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2026 at 7:16 AM Andrew Lunn wrote: > > > > 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. > > This is just fixing OF_DYNAMIC for mdio now, it's no longer used > by the AC200/AC300 PHY patches anymore. Meaning it has no users? We don't add code unless it has a user. To do so pointlessly adds Maintenance burden. Andrew