Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] RFC: net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Register mdio-external

From: Rob Herring <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 09:15:50 -0500

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