Re: [PATCH] Revert "of: property: fw_devlink: Add support for "phy-handle" property"

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed Sep 15 2021 - 09:14:45 EST


On Wed, 15 Sep 2021 01:19:32 -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> This reverts commit cf4b94c8530d14017fbddae26aad064ddc42edd4.
>
> Some PHYs pointed to by "phy-handle" will never bind to a driver until a
> consumer attaches to it. And when the consumer attaches to it, they get
> forcefully bound to a generic PHY driver. In such cases, parsing the
> phy-handle property and creating a device link will prevent the consumer
> from ever probing. We don't want that. So revert support for
> "phy-handle" property until we come up with a better mechanism for
> binding PHYs to generic drivers before a consumer tries to attach to it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/of/property.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>

Applied, thanks!