From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>,
huangdaode <huangdaode@hisilicon.com>,
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davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v2 net-next] net: hisilicon: updates HNS config and documents
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 23:05:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4387413.QS6YM6BNWK@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <563424EB.1060804@huawei.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-02 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-27 11:16 [PATCH RESEND v2 net-next] net: hisilicon: updates HNS config and documents huangdaode
2015-10-28 3:20 ` David Miller
2015-10-30 14:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-10-31 1:40 ` huangdaode
[not found] ` <56341C00.8080303-C8/M+/jPZTeaMJb+Lgu22Q@public.gmane.org>
2015-10-31 2:18 ` Salil Mehta
2015-11-02 22:05 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2015-11-12 2:11 ` huangdaode
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