Re: [PATCH] net: mdio: enable optional clock when registering a phy from devicetree

[Andrew Lunn]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 03:24:53PM +0100, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> From: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The ethernet-phy binding (now) specifys that phys can declare a clock
> supply. Phy driver itself will handle this when probing the phy-driver.
> 
> But there is a gap when trying to detect phys, because the mdio-bus needs
> to talk to the phy to get its phy-id. Using actual phy-ids in the dt like
>        compatible = "ethernet-phy-id0022.1640",
>                     "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22";
> of course circumvents this, but in turn hard-codes the phy.
> 
> With boards often having multiple phy options and the mdio-bus being able
> to actually probe devices, this feels like a step back.
> 
> So check for the existence of a phy-clock per the -dtbinding in the
> of_mdiobus_register_phy() and enable the clock around the
> fwnode_mdiobus_register_phy() call which tries to determine the phy-id.

Why handle this separately to the reset GPIO and the reset controller?

    Andrew