Re: [PATCH] net: mdio: of: Do not treat fixed-link as PHY

[Andrew Lunn]

> Hi Andrew
> 
> > 
> > There are some still using this deprecated feature. But macb is the
> > only one doing this odd looping over child nodes. It is this looping
> > which is breaking things, not the use of the deprecated feature
> > itself.
> 
> Yes, its due to the fact that the MDIO node is missing. Should we have 
> in mind to add an MDIO node under the macb node, where we could add the 
> PHY nodes?

Yes, you can make the driver complient any time you want. But as you
said, you need to keep with backwards compatibility. But net-next is
closed now, for the merge window. So you probably want to wait two
weeks before posting code.

      Andrew