Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/4] net: mdio: support dynamic OF device changes

From: James Hilliard

Date: Fri Aug 07 2026 - 11:15:00 EST


On Fri, Aug 7, 2026 at 7:16 AM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 09:54:19PM -0600, James Hilliard wrote:
> > MDIO buses enumerate firmware children only when the bus is registered. A
> > later devicetree overlay or status transition is ignored, unlike on I2C and
> > SPI buses. Supporting live reconfiguration also means that population and
> > removal can race address scanning, PHY attachment and bus teardown.
>
> Please make the bootloader work around the issues, and drop this
> patchset.

This is just fixing OF_DYNAMIC for mdio now, it's no longer used
by the AC200/AC300 PHY patches anymore.

>
> Andrew