On 01/22/2017 08:41 AM, 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: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> -- Florian -- 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
