Re: [PATCH] of_mdio: Add "broadcom,bcm5241" to the whitelist.

[David Daney]

On 02/17/2017 12:09 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 02/17/2017 12:04 PM, David Daney wrote:
> > Some Cavium dev boards have firmware which doesn't supply a proper
> > ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22" compatible property.  Restore these boards
> > to working order by whitelisting this compatible value.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> > ---
> >  drivers/of/of_mdio.c | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/of/of_mdio.c b/drivers/of/of_mdio.c
> > index 262281b..0b29798 100644
> > --- a/drivers/of/of_mdio.c
> > +++ b/drivers/of/of_mdio.c
> > @@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_mdio_parse_addr);
> >   */
> >  static const struct of_device_id whitelist_phys[] = {
> >  	{ .compatible = "brcm,40nm-ephy" },
> > +	{ .compatible = "broadcom,bcm5241" },
>
> And that's not the vendor prefix from vendor-prefixes.txt.

No, that dts containing this value predates vendor-prefixes.txt.

Previous to
commit 801a8ef54e8b ("of: phy: Only register a phy device for phys"), 
the form of the compatible string didn't matter for phys
> >  	{ .compatible = "marvell,88E1111", },
> >  	{ .compatible = "marvell,88e1116", },
> >  	{ .compatible = "marvell,88e1118", },