Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] net: altera-tse: Don't use netdev name for the PCS mdio bus

From: Andrew Lunn

Date: Fri Oct 31 2025 - 12:17:47 EST


On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 11:24:16AM +0100, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> The PCS mdio bus must be created before registering the net_device. To
> do that, we musn't depend on the netdev name to create the mdio bus
> name. Let's use the device's name instead.

The name does appear in /sys/bus/mdiobus, so there is a potential for
ABI breakage. But it seems unlikely.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Andrew