Re: [PATCH RESEND v2 net-next] net: hisilicon: updates HNS config and documents

[Arnd Bergmann]

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
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