Re: [net-next: PATCH 08/12] ACPI: scan: prevent double enumeration of MDIO bus children

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 9:08 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 05:02:21PM +0200, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> > The MDIO bus is responsible for probing and registering its respective
> > children, such as PHYs or other kind of devices.
> >
> > It is required that ACPI scan code should not enumerate such
> > devices, leaving this task for the generic MDIO bus routines,
> > which are initiated by the controller driver.
>
> I suppose the question is, should you ignore the ACPI way of doing
> things, or embrace the ACPI way?

What do you mean by "the ACPI way"?

> At least please add a comment why the ACPI way is wrong, despite this
> being an ACPI binding.

The question really is whether or not it is desirable to create
platform devices for all of the objects found in the ACPI tables that
correspond to the devices on the MDIO bus.

I don't think it is, so it should be avoided.