Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:45:05 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Pramod Kumar <pramod.kumar@broadcom.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
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        Anup Patel <anup.patel@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] bus: Add shared MDIO bus framework
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> I am not clear on how common a shared MDIO bus is on other SoCs, but the
> other Broadcom SoCs I am familiar with have dedicated MDIO buses
> instances per type of PHY (PCIe, BUSB, Ethernet), thus making the split
> a ton easier.

I don't actually see this shared bus being an issue, once the mux it
implemented. With the mux, you see N MDIO busses, each acting like a
normal MDIO bus. I've used the GPIO variety and had no issues:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=145910090401796&w=2

	Andrew