Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] dt-bindings: net: Add bindings for Realtek PHYs

[Andrew Lunn]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 01:01:36PM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 09:46:15PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 12:24:53PM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > > Add the 'realtek,eee-led-mode-disable' property to disable EEE
> > > LED mode on Realtek PHYs that support it.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > TODO: adapt PHY core to deal with optional compatible strings
> > 
> > Yes. Does this even work at the moment? I would expect
> > of_mdiobus_child_is_phy() to return false, indicating the device is
> > not actually a PHY.
> 
> Indeed, it currently doesn't work atm. I found that removing the check
> for dev->of_node in of_mdiobus_link_mdiodev() helps, but I imagine
> doing (only) this might have undesired side-effects.

O.K.

Please put RFC in patches like this which don't actually work and so
should not be merged. We don't want David accidentally merging them!

       Andrew