On 17/03/2023 12:34, Álvaro Fernández Rojas wrote: > b53 MMAP devices have a MDIO Mux bus controller that must be registered after > properly initializing the switch. If the MDIO Mux controller is registered > from a separate driver and the device has an external switch present, it will > cause a race condition which will hang the device. Are you sure it is wrapped according to Linux coding style? https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.18-rc4/source/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst#L586 Your rationale does not justify incompatible binding change, especially that it could be probably solved by including the child in the parent. Anyway, Linux driver boot order is not a reason to change bindings really. Best regards, Krzysztof