Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] of: property: fw_devlink: Add support for "phy-handle" property

From: Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:01:56 +0200

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 01:48:23PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 12:58 PM Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > > PHY seems to be one of those cases where it's okay to have the
> > > compatible property but also okay to not have it.
> >
> > Correct. They are like PCI or USB devices. You can ask it, what are
> > you? There are two registers in standard locations which give you a
> > vendor and product ID. We use that to find the correct driver.
> 
> For all the cases of PHYs that currently don't need any compatible
> string, requiring a compatible string of type "ethernet-phy-standard"
> would have been nice.

How does this help you? You cannot match that against anything?

How do you handle PCI and USB devices? e.g.

arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl-zii-rdu2.dtsi

&pcie {
        pinctrl-names = "default";
        pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_pcie>;
        reset-gpio = <&gpio7 12 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
        status = "okay";

        host@0 {
                reg = <0 0 0 0 0>;

                #address-cells = <3>;
                #size-cells = <2>;

                i210: i210@0 {
                        reg = <0 0 0 0 0>;
                };
        };
};

There is an intel i210 Ethernet control on the PCIe bus. There is no
compatible string, none is needed. This is no different to a PHY.

	   Andrew