Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v2 net-next] net: hisilicon: updates HNS config and documents

From: huangdaode <huangdaode-C8/M+/[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:11:24 +0800

On 2015/11/3 6:05, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 31 October 2015 02:18:19 Salil Mehta wrote:
>> On 10/31/2015 1:40 AM, huangdaode wrote:
>>> On 2015/10/30 22:20, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday 27 October 2015 19:16:34 huangdaode wrote:
>>>>>             mdio@803c0000 {
>>>>>                       #address-cells = <1>;
>>>>>                       #size-cells = <0>;
>>>>> -                   compatible = "hisilicon,mdio","hisilicon,hns-mdio";
>>>>> +                   compatible = "hisilicon,hns-mdio","hisilicon,mdio";
>>>>>                       reg = <0x0 0x803c0000 0x0 0x10000>;
>>>>>
>>>> Does "hisilicon,mdio" actually have a specific meaning? Is that just
>>>> there
>>>> for legacy reasons?
>>>>
>>>>      Arnd
>>>>
>>>> .
>>>>
>>> hi Arnd,
>>> "hisilicon,mdio" is  the gernerical configuation compatible  for the
>>> default hisilicon chip,
>>> We use generic hisilicon since our MDIO/PHY is same across flavour of
>>> SoCs.
>>>
>> Hi Arnd,
>> Yes, "hisilicon,mdio" exists for the legacy reasons to support older SoC
>> Hip04.
> I see. In that case, that compatible string should probably be mentioned
> only as 'optional' in the binding, and not used for devices other than
> hip04.
>
> 	Arnd
>
> .
>
Hi, Arnd
ok, ill send a patch to specify it, please Ack then.
thanks
Daode.

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Best Regards
Daode Huang

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