On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 20:32:34 +0800 Andy Chiu wrote: > The Ethernet driver use phy-handle to reference the PCS/PMA PHY. This > could be a problem if one wants to configure an external PHY via phylink, > since it use the same phandle to get the PHY. To fix this, introduce a > dedicated pcs-handle to point to the PCS/PMA PHY and deprecate the use > of pointing it with phy-handle. A similar use case of pcs-handle can be > seen on dpaa2 as well. > > --- patch v5 --- > - Re-applying the v4 patch on the net tree. > - Describes the pcs-handle DT binding at ethernet-controller level. > --- patch v6 --- > - Remove "preferrably" to clearify usage of pcs_handle. This set not longer applies, please rebase on latest net/master.
