Subject: Re: [BISECTED] v4.5-rc1 phylib regression

From: Florian Fainelli <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:54:13 -0800

On 26/01/16 14:09, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>> Nope, not an option. Only a small number of DTB actually use c22 or
>>> c45. The majority of devices have no compatible at all. Why should
>>> they, the binding documentation says it is optional!
>>
>> So one thing that can be done is to just have a whitelist in the
>> driver that we add the known phy compatibles to, with a nice comment
>> above that this should only be for legacy device trees.
> 
> So you mean drivers/of/of_mdio.c:of_mdiobus_child_is_phy()
> has a white list like:
> 
> "brcm,40nm-ephy"
> "marvell,88E1111", 
> "marvell,88e1116",
> "marvell,88e1118",
> "marvell,88e1149r",
> "marvell,88e1310",
> "marvell,88E1510",
> "marvell,88E1514",
> "moxa,moxart-rtl8201cp",
> 
> Yes, that would work.
> 
> We should also update the binding documentation to limit what is legal
> in the compatible string.

Agreed, and while at it, take the opportunity to make the compatible
string clause 22/45 mandatory properties so we do not multiply the
whitelist.

Thanks!
-- 
Florian