Re: [PATCH V2 4/5] dt-bindings: phy: Modify Broadcom NS USB 3.0 PHY binding to use MDIO

From	Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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Subject	Re: [PATCH V2 4/5] dt-bindings: phy: Modify Broadcom NS USB 3.0 PHY binding to use MDIO
Date	2017-06-14 17:30 +0200
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On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 10:04:27PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> 
> Thanks to work done by Broadcom explaining their USB 3.0 PHY details we
> know it's attached to the MDIO bus. Use this knowledge to update the
> binding: make it a subnode to the MDIO bus and rework way of specifying
> required registers. This will describe hardware more precisely and will
> allow to support (describe) more devices attached to the MDIO.
> 
> While compatibility strings remain the same there isn't a direct
> conflict (compatibility breakage) for the binding. Originally it wasn't
> supposed to be used for MDIO subnode so this change should be safe
> unless some operating system was probing MDIO subnodes as standalone
> devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> ---
> V2: Extend commit message to better describe reason and includ info on
>     (non-)breakage.
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/phy/bcm-ns-usb3-phy.txt    | 27 +++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>

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[PATCH V2 4/5] dt-bindings: phy: Modify Broadcom NS USB 3.0 PHY binding to use MDIO Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> - 2017-06-08 22:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH V2 4/5] dt-bindings: phy: Modify Broadcom NS USB 3.0 PHY  binding to use MDIO Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2017-06-14 17:30 +0200

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