Re: [net-next RFC/PATCH] net: nixge: Make mdio child node optional

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Mon Feb 04 2019 - 09:59:03 EST


On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 06:50:48PM -0800, Moritz Fischer wrote:
> Make MDIO child optional and only instantiate the
> MDIO bus if the child is actually present.
>
> There are currently no (in-tree) users of this
> binding; all (out-of-tree) users use overlays that
> get shipped together with the FPGA images that contain
> the IP.
>
> This will significantly increase maintainabilty
> of future revisions of this IP.
>
> Signed-off-by: Moritz Fischer <mdf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Andrew