The driver used the DT node of the device itself when registering the MDIO bus. While this works, it creates a problem: it forces any MDIO bus properties to also be set on the devices DT node. This mixes the properties of two distinctly different things and is confusing. This change adds support for an optional mdio node to be defined as a child to the device DT node. The child node can then be used to describe MDIO bus properties that the MDIO core can act on when registering the bus. If no mdio child node is found the driver fallback to the old behavior and register the MDIO bus using the device DT node. This change is backward compatible with old bindings in use. Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> --- * Changes since v3 - None * Changes since v2 - Use DT node instead of OF ode in commit message. - Update punctuation in commit message. - Simplify the node selection in the driver. --- drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c index d1be030c8848..9a397f9b4c0c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c @@ -2564,6 +2564,7 @@ static int ravb_mdio_init(struct ravb_private *priv) { struct platform_device *pdev = priv->pdev; struct device *dev = &pdev->dev; + struct device_node *mdio_node; struct phy_device *phydev; struct device_node *pn; int error; @@ -2583,7 +2584,13 @@ static int ravb_mdio_init(struct ravb_private *priv) pdev->name, pdev->id); /* Register MDIO bus */ - error = of_mdiobus_register(priv->mii_bus, dev->of_node); + mdio_node = of_get_child_by_name(dev->of_node, "mdio"); + if (!mdio_node) { + /* backwards compatibility for DT lacking mdio subnode */ + mdio_node = of_node_get(dev->of_node); + } + error = of_mdiobus_register(priv->mii_bus, mdio_node); + of_node_put(mdio_node); if (error) goto out_free_bus; -- 2.44.0