On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 03:26:42PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 11/03/16 15:08, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Currently, supporting a fixed-phy in a MAC driver is a bit messy. It
> > needs to be explicit supported, since a fixed phy is somewhat
> > different from a normal phy.
> >
> > These two patches solve this by making fixed-phys appear as normal
> > PHYs within device tree, allowing them to be referenced by a phandle.
> > Any MAC driver that supports phy-handle can then automatically support
> > a fixed-phy without any code change.
>
> Humm, if that's the problem we want to solve, we could introduce a
> helper function which tries to locate the phy using a 'phy-handle'
> property
I don't follow you. Where do you get a phandle from to use with
phy-handle?
Andrew
