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

From: Moritz Fischer
Date: Mon Feb 04 2019 - 11:34:22 EST


On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 03:58:54PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 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>

Thanks.
>
> Andrew

I'll resubmit as a series together with the fixed-link change.
Since Dave has applied Alex' patches I'll need to rebase anyways,
otherwise it doesn't apply anymore to net-next.

Cheers,

Moritz