Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: dsa: allow switch drivers to override default slave PHY addresses

[Florian Fainelli]

On 3/30/2020 6:53 AM, Matthias Schiffer wrote:
> Avoid having to define a PHY for every physical port when PHY addresses
> are fixed, but port index != PHY address.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <matthias.schiffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

You could do this much more elegantly by doing this with Device Tree and
specifying the built-in PHYs to be hanging off the switch's internal
MDIO bus and specifying the port to PHY address mapping, you would only
patch #4 then.
-- 
Florian