On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 03:11:06PM +0100, Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> 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>
Andrew
