On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 12:35:16AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > Make it legal to have a subnode just named "mdio-external" > and have that be recognized immediately as the external > MDIO bus, register it and return. Only fallback to the > old method with a compatible in the external bus node > if this doesn't work. > > This is the result of deprecating the old DT method > of providing a node "mdio1" with a compatible string. What is missing from this description is why do you want to deprecate the old method? What is wrong with it? Andrew