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From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Subject: Re: [BISECTED] v4.5-rc1 phylib regression
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:08:00 -0800
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
>> I hate to bikeshed, but I'm not sure if "generic-mdio" is too...
>> generic? Will someone writing a DT be thinking "well, this is a
>> generic mdio PHY, I should set it"?  "mdio-device"?
>> "generic-nonphy-mdio"? Neither of those seem much better.
>
> How about 'not-a-phy'?

"mdio,not-a-phy" or "mdio,non-phy" will scope it a bit, especially if
you expect other generic mdio properties that can do with a namespace.

Probably time to add devicetree-discuss. Doing so.


-Olof