On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 05:41:32PM +0100, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
> The old description basically read like "ethernet-phy-idAAAA.BBBB" can
> be specified when you know the actual PHY ID. However, specifying this
> has a side-effect: it forces Linux to bind to a certain PHY driver (the
> one that matches the ID given in the compatible string), ignoring the ID
> which is reported by the actual PHY.
> Whenever a device is shipped with (multiple) different PHYs during it's
> production lifetime then explicitly specifying
> "ethernet-phy-idAAAA.BBBB" could break certain revisions of that device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
Thanks
Andrew
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