Re: [PATCH] net: mdio: of: Do not treat fixed-link as PHY

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On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 06:17:40PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 07:01:36PM +0300, Codrin Ciubotariu wrote:
> > Some ethernet controllers, such as cadence's macb, have an embedded MDIO.
> > For this reason, the ethernet PHY nodes are not under an MDIO bus, but
> > directly under the ethernet node.
> 
> Hi Codrin
> 
> That is deprecated. It causes all sorts of problems putting PHY nodes
> in the MAC without a container.
> 
> Please fix macb to look for an mdio node, and place your fixed link
> inside it.

Seems wrong.

fixed links have never needed to be under a mdio node - see
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-controller.yaml

fixed-link is a child of the MAC controller, not of a mdio node.

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