On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 05:06:39PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote: > For a long time, PCSs have been tightly coupled with their MACs. For > this reason, the MAC creates the "phy" or mdio device, and then passes > it to the PCS to initialize. This has a few disadvantages: > > - Each MAC must re-implement the same steps to look up/create a PCS > - The PCS cannot use functions tied to device lifetime, such as devm_*. > - Generally, the PCS does not have easy access to its device tree node Is there a clear need to solve these disadvantages? There comes extra runtime complexity with the PCS-as-device scheme (plus the extra complexity needed to address the DT backwards compatibility problems it causes; not addressed here).
