Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Ensure that MDIO diversion is used

[Andrew Lunn]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 02:03:27PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Registering our slave MDIO bus outside of the OF infrastructure is
> necessary in order to avoid creating double references of the same
> Device Tree nodes, however it is not sufficient to guarantee that the
> MDIO bus diversion is used because of_phy_connect() will still resolve
> to a valid PHY phandle and it will connect to the PHY using its parent
> MDIO bus which is still the SF2 master MDIO bus.
> 
> Ensure that of_phy_connect() does not suceed by removing any phandle
> reference for the PHY we need to divert. This forces the DSA code to use
> the DSA slave_mii_bus that we register and ensures the MDIO diversion is
> being used.

Hi Florian

Sorry, i don't get this explanation. Can you point me towards a device
tree i can look at to maybe understand what is going on.

     Andrew