> I think we need a better solution than spending the effort needed > to make the MDIO ops runtime-pm-aware. In general there seems to be > just one network driver using both phylib and runtime pm, so most > drivers aren't affected (yet). > > I will spend few more thoughts on a solution ..
Hi Heiner Please keep in mind that MDIO is a generic bus. Many Ethernet switches are connected via MDIO. Some of those switches have MDIO busses of their own. Also, some Broadcom devices have USB-PHYs controlled over MDIO, etc. So you need a generic solution here. Andrew
