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Re: [PATCH] phylib: Make PHYs children of their MDIO bus, not the bus' parent.

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On 21/08/15 16:16, David Daney wrote:
> From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
> 
> commit 18ee49ddb0d2 ("phylib: rename mii_bus::dev to mii_bus::parent")
> changed the parent of PHY devices from the bus to the bus parent.
> 
> Then, commit 4dea547fef1b ("phylib: rework to prepare for OF
> registration of PHYs") moved the code into phy_device.c
> 
> At this point, it is somewhat unclear why the change was seen as
> necessary.  But, when we look at the device model tree in
> /sys/devices, it is clearly incorrect.  The PHYs should be children of
> their MDIO bus.
> 
> Change the PHY's parent device to be the MDIO bus device.
> 
> Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>

Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
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Florian
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[PATCH] phylib: Make PHYs children of their MDIO bus, not the bus' parent. David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 01:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] phylib: Make PHYs children of their MDIO bus, not the  bus' parent. Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 02:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] phylib: Make PHYs children of their MDIO bus, not the  bus' parent. David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-08-25 20:40 +0200

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