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authorSrinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com>2012-11-16 00:33:59 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-11-19 18:57:07 -0500
commit3272dd9b0fe4bc09321219ab65dc5eda3e82445c (patch)
treef881e4e74172dd845a3fe1e45e27d004ab5b43c7 /Documentation
parent8495c0da20bc496ac9d5da2b292adb28f61d2713 (diff)
of/net/mdio-gpio: Fix pdev->id issue when using devicetrees.
When the mdio-gpio driver is probed via device trees, the platform device id is set as -1, However the pdev->id is re-used as bus-id for while creating mdio gpio bus. So For device tree case the mdio-gpio bus name appears as "gpio-ffffffff" where as for non-device tree case the bus name appears as "gpio-<bus-num>" Which means the bus_id is fixed in device tree case, so we can't have two mdio gpio buses via device trees. Assigning a logical bus number via device tree solves the problem and the bus name is much consistent with non-device tree bus name. Without this patch 1. we can't support two mdio-gpio buses via device trees. 2. we should always pass gpio-ffffffff as bus name to phy_connect, very different to non-device tree bus name. So, setting up the bus_id via aliases from device tree is the right solution and other drivers do similar thing. Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mdio-gpio.txt9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mdio-gpio.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mdio-gpio.txt
index bc954952901..c79bab02536 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mdio-gpio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mdio-gpio.txt
@@ -8,9 +8,16 @@ gpios property as described in section VIII.1 in the following order:
MDC, MDIO.
+Note: Each gpio-mdio bus should have an alias correctly numbered in "aliases"
+node.
+
Example:
-mdio {
+aliases {
+ mdio-gpio0 = <&mdio0>;
+};
+
+mdio0: mdio {
compatible = "virtual,mdio-gpio";
#address-cells = <1>;
#size-cells = <0>;