Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] dt-bindings: net: phy: Add support for NXP TJA11xx

[Rob Herring]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 3:09 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 3/20/2020 4:05 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> >>>> Because the primary PHY0 can be autodetected by the bus scan.
> >>>> But I have nothing against your suggestions. Please, some one should say the
> >>>> last word here, how exactly it should be implemented?
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> >> It's not for me to decide, I was hoping the Device Tree maintainers
> >> could chime in, your current approach would certainly work although it
> >> feels visually awkward.
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> > Something like this is what I'd do:
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> > ethernet-phy@4 {
> >   compatible = "nxp,tja1102";
> >   reg = <4 5>;
> > };
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> But the parent (MDIO bus controller) has #address-cells = 1 and
> #size-cells = 0, so how can this be made to work without creating two
> nodes or a first node encapsulating another one?

That is the size of the address, not how many addresses there are. If
the device has 2 addresses, then 2 address entries seems entirely
appropriate.

Rob