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> > --- > Thanks to Andrew Lunn for pointing the documentation issue out to me in: > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-amlogic/2017-January/002141.html > > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/phy.txt | 5 +++-- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
