On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 04:03:57PM -0500, Josh Cartwright wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 08:59:32PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 01:55:27PM -0500, Nathan Sullivan wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 08:43:03PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > > > > I agree that is a valid fix for AT91, however it won't solve our > > > > > problem, since > > > > > we have no children on the second ethernet MAC in our devices' device > > > > > trees. I'm > > > > > starting to feel like our second MAC shouldn't even really register > > > > > the MDIO bus > > > > > since it isn't being used - maybe adding a DT property to not have a > > > > > bus is a > > > > > better option? > > > > > > > > status = "disabled" > > > > > > > > would be the unusual way. > > > > > > > > Andrew > > > > > > Oh, sorry, I meant we use both MACs on Zynq, however the PHYs are on the > > > MDIO > > > bus of the first MAC. So, the second MAC is used for ethernet but not > > > for MDIO, > > > and so it does not have any PHYs under its DT node. It would be nice if > > > there > > > were a way to tell macb not to bother with MDIO for the second MAC, since > > > that's > > > handled by the first MAC. > > > > Yes, exactly, add support for status = "disabled" in the mdio node. > > Unfortunately, the 'macb' doesn't have a "mdio node", or alternatively: > the node representing the mdio bus is the same node which represents the > macb instance itself. Setting 'status = "disabled"' on this node will > just prevent the probing of the macb instance.
:-( It is very common to have an mdio node within the MAC node, for example imx6sx-sdb.dtsi &fec1 { pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_enet1>; phy-supply = <®_enet_3v3>; phy-mode = "rgmii"; phy-handle = <ðphy1>; status = "okay"; mdio { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <0>; ethphy1: ethernet-phy@1 { reg = <1>; }; ethphy2: ethernet-phy@2 { reg = <2>; }; }; }; &fec2 { pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_enet2>; phy-mode = "rgmii"; phy-handle = <ðphy2>; status = "okay"; }; This even has the two phys on one bus, as you described... Andrew