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

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Feb 04 2019 - 12:14:08 EST


From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 15:58:54 +0100

> 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>

Moritz, please repost without the RFC tag and with Andrew's tag added.

Thanks.