Re: [PATCH] Documentation: net: phy: improve explanation when to specify the PHY ID

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From: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 17:41:32 +0100

> 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

Applied.
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