Fix problems with Holly's DT representation of ethernet PHYs
David Gibson
dwg at au1.ibm.com
Mon May 28 09:30:31 EST 2007
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 04:11:59PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > Waah! Third time lucky?
>
> You wish :-)
>
> > - Second, the PHYs give only "bcm54xx" as a compatible
> > property. This is unfortunate, because there are many bcm54xx PHY
> > models, and they have differences which can matter. We add a more
> > precise compatible string, giving the precise PHY model (bcm5461A in
> > this case).
>
> You completely removed the "compatible" properties instead.
> Bad idea.
Um... weren't you the one that was just saying compatible properties
aren't necessary if you can distinguish the hardware in other ways?
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