From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
kernel-team@android.com, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "of: property: fw_devlink: Add support for "phy-handle" property"
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:14:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YUHxvf7/nAhjnBn+@robh.at.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210915081933.485112-1-saravanak@google.com>
On Wed, 15 Sep 2021 01:19:32 -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> This reverts commit cf4b94c8530d14017fbddae26aad064ddc42edd4.
>
> Some PHYs pointed to by "phy-handle" will never bind to a driver until a
> consumer attaches to it. And when the consumer attaches to it, they get
> forcefully bound to a generic PHY driver. In such cases, parsing the
> phy-handle property and creating a device link will prevent the consumer
> from ever probing. We don't want that. So revert support for
> "phy-handle" property until we come up with a better mechanism for
> binding PHYs to generic drivers before a consumer tries to attach to it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
> ---
> drivers/of/property.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
Applied, thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-15 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-15 8:19 [PATCH] Revert "of: property: fw_devlink: Add support for "phy-handle" property" Saravana Kannan
2021-09-15 13:14 ` Rob Herring [this message]
2021-09-17 2:21 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-09-17 2:27 ` Saravana Kannan
2021-09-17 16:58 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-09-17 17:21 ` Saravana Kannan
2021-09-17 17:31 ` Florian Fainelli
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