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. I think this is the wrong direction. Using compatible is much better than relying on node names. We've been "fixing" node names precisely because they are usually not ABI. Rob
