[PATCH 2/3] Introduce new CPM device bindings.

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Aug 30 15:48:54 EST 2007


On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:55:59AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> Am I correct in thinking that it's basically an arch/ppc versus
> arch/powerpc thing.  In which case couldn't you use CONFIG_PPC_MERGE
> instead?

The idea was to allow boards to be converted incrementally, as I don't
have access to test 100% of the boards that use the CPM code.

> > It has a phandle to the phy node...  if you mean the mdio bus node, why?
> 
> Well, I'm just working of the example of 4xx EMAC.  The way it does
> mdio, it wants a handle on the mdio bus to perform various operations
> there as well on the phy to tell it how to address them.  fsl-enet may
> do things differently and have no particular need for such a handle.

Even if it did need such a handle, couldn't it just look at the phy
node's parent?

-Scott



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